Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When asked about Soviet Russia, he made gently critical or defensive statements. The strongest thing he would say was: "I detest dictatorship," quickly adding that the idea that Hitler's dictatorship and Stalin's dictatorship are alike is "criminal ... a myth...
What would Jean Boewet say to all that? He would probably just shrug. Experts with briefcases, speeches in committees! If he had a word for it, it would doubtless be le mot de Cambronne.* And even those committees, most of them, were hardly more than at Halfway House : nobody was surrendering any national sovereignty just yet. But there was more to come. At The Hague this week, Europeans who want a United States of Europe will gather to talk it over. No government has sponsored their meeting, but hundreds of British and French publicists and politicians, including Winston Churchill, will...
...Schwante, arrived to announce the invasion on the morning of May 10, Spaak shut him off: "No, you are not going to read this to me. I know what it is ... I am the one who is going to speak, and what I have to say is-get the hell out of here." Spaak went to France when his country fell, escaped through Spain to London, after hiding from Franco's police in the bottom of an orange-laden truck...
...Many of the guns with which Figueres' men fought to victory had been stacked last summer on a finca outside Havana for use against Trujillo. At the last minute the Cuban army authorities seized the guns, and the exped tion flopped. "We waited too long," the exiles say now. Last winter Guatemalan planes began taking loads of flowers to Havana. They flew back by night, carrying heavier cargo. Cases of guns were quietly stowed away in Guatemalan warehouses. Then, when Figueres rebelled in Costa Rica, the guns were flown to his mountain forces. They helped...
...Planning. For seven months the government had tried to screw up its courage to say those last seven words. In September, St. Laurent told the United Nations that the free democracies hoped they would not have to form a security union within...