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Fragmentary as they are, however, the Diaries add new insight to the character of the tough, purposeful Government servant whom Washington remembers-the middleweight of the broken nose, the level gaze, the straight-lined lips and few words. James Forrestal was a man whose mind never put down the burden of responsibility for U.S. military security. His inner conflict was between his intense loyalty to his chiefs and his equally intense concern for the safety of his country. When politics or expediency dictated policies that violated Forrestal's calculations of military necessities, he kept his worries within the official...
...Henry Lovell Goldsworthy Gurney, 53, High Commissioner for the United Kingdom to the Federation of Malaya, was a man who seemed to be precisely what he was - a stern and incorruptible servant of Empire. Like a hundred colonial administrators before him, he was a public-school man (Winchester) and an Oxford graduate. He served his apprenticeship in jungles from Jamaica to the Gold Coast, and everywhere earned a reputation as "a man who got things done." The conversation of friends discussing Sir Henry in clubs near Whitehall was seldom if ever leavened with warm, personal anecdote, but words like "courage...
...Duke of Wellington, when he was very old and incredibly distinguished, was telling how once, at mess in the Peninsula, his servant had opened a bottle of port, and inside found...
...Saad Zagluhl, the party began to sag and split. When the Wafd came to power again in January 1950, after years in & out of office, the party pulled a gigantic switch: from its traditional status as His Majesty's loyal opposition, it became His Majesty's obedient servant. The price for the switch: patronage and palace favors for Wafd politicos. The Wafd government is glad to do the palace little favors in return-like appropriating $3,700,000 for, among other things, repair of the royal yacht and of palace walls...
Brimstone Battle. The find was another feather in the cap of Manhattan Multimillionaire John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 47, capitalist, Yaleman, sportsman (polo and racing), soldier (Air Forces colonel), connoisseur of modern art (TIME, Aug. 27), philanthropist, Broadway angel (Life With Father), public servant (president of New York Hospital), and husband of one of the famed Cushing sisters (Betsy, ex-wife of James Roosevelt). Whitney is Freeport Sulphur's chairman and biggest stockholder. Along with Freeport's President Langbourne M. Williams Jr., 48, he got control of Freeport when both of them were still in their twenties...