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Russian officials soon learned that their seclusion, their secretive official air did not sit well. On the conference's opening day, Molotov and Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet Ambassador to Washington, must have overheard the rude remarks of newsmen waiting with them for an elevator in the Fairmont Hotel: "Those bastard Russians!"; "Did you hear how so-&-so got the brushoff?" Gromyko speaks and understands English; Molotov does...
...Army had made a true and accurate estimate of what was still needed, even as its troops reached the Rhine at week's end, then the U.S. was due for one more rude shock. The new orders meant that the entire program for war had been underestimated. To make up the deficit, the U.S. was going to have to put up with shortages, forget reconversion for a while, and work as hard as it had before it blithely decided that victory in Europe was already...
...correspondent counted 4,000 rude crosses in the Filipino burial ground; another saw "thousands" in the American sector...
Some commentators labeled the rebuke to Britain "rude," "tactless," "undiplomatic," "quarrelsome." But why had the statement been made? Behind it, obviously, was Anglo-American divergence on a basic question: what is democracy and how is it achieved? Both countries agree that democracy exists only when people in an orderly country have a free choice of parties and candidates. Britain asserted its right and duty to keep order in liberated countries until such a free choice could be freely exercised. Without apparently advancing any alternative, the U.S. condemned this as "outside influence." Britain's worry was that tightly-knit Communist...
...anything more than necessary nuisances. His attitude is typified by the recent cartoon in which two men watch a new secret weapon-a buzzbomb with a loud speaker-flying over their heads. Says one: "I'm told that five seconds after the whirring sound stops it shouts a rude remark by Goebbels...