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...must have read even her favorite authors with half an eye: "I have just read Mrs Gasgells life of Charlotte Brontë, & enjoyed it immensely, almost as much as Jane Ayer." But she was often a shrewd observer. Of General Phil Sheridan she notes: "When anyone makes a commonplace remark or says something that does not interest him, he says, 'um, um, yes. yes,' in the most aggravating manner." She quotes, though without approval, the remark of an English fellow-traveler: "I think one always feels so cross & nasty if one gets up before noon, & then besides...
Gandhi's critie rejoices at Bernard Shaw's remark that the success of the Bolsheviks is due to their grasp of communism and capitalism. Perhaps the communists know it all. I would advise my opponent, however, not to take Mr. Shaw too seriously, for the same gentleman is reported to have said recently that not unless all living communists are killed can communism become a reality. Auup S. Dhillon
...Office, their business to see to it that Manchukuo did not become embroiled with Russia, thereby involving her ally Japan. Said Russia's Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov, "It is common knowledge that Japan and Manchukuo are the same thing." The Japanese Foreign Office chortled that Litvinov's remark was "just like the Russians...
Springing; Josh's remark at that time...
Britain's Parliament boiled then with talk of gunboats. Anglo-Persian's Sir John Cadman was in California at the time. Discounting inflammatory British talk, he started home with the mild remark...