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...Tokyo, Buenos Aires and Havana, Sumner Welles is a casting director's dream of a diplomat, except for his thinning hair. His diplomatic experience has ranged from mediating in the Dominican Republic at 30 to seeing him self hanged in effigy in Cuba in 1933 and hearing mobs shout "Down with Welles...
...industrial Manchester's Free Trade Hall, 2,500 citizens listened as the First Lord vaunted that Adolf Hitler had lost the first phase of the war by not launching crushing attacks. Suddenly from the audience came a single shout-for Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley. Police threw the heckler out. Unruffled, Winston Churchill went on. The time might come, he said, when Britain would take the initiative. "We want Mosley!" came a new shout. Police did their work again. Churchill continued. The shout was repeated...
...foreign agencies . . . shout themselves hoarse that Finnish troops broke through the front in all directions, crossed the Soviet frontier and wage operations on U. S. S. R. territory. This is an utter lie. ... In reality, Finnish troops have never reached Soviet frontiers in any direction. As a matter of fact they have hardly set themselves to such a task." (True, except for small raiding parties...
...candidate, he hinted in a shout, must be Mr. Roosevelt. "He is our Lincoln," cried Young Hickory. To grumblers who beef because the President will not declare himself on the third term he had an answer, presumably straight from headquarters: "Why should Franklin Roosevelt be the one man in all public life now committed to accept or not accept a nomination? . . . We do not want to put the greatest asset of the Democratic party in hock...
...soon after dawn as is seemly, the pajama-clad small fry whoop into "Grandpa's" bedroom, bounce on his bed, shout "Merry Christmas," and dive for the bulging red stockings hanging from the mantelpiece. After breakfast (smoked sausages and scrambled eggs) the President and the immediate family motor around old Lafayette Square to the grey granite St. Thomas Episcopal Church...