Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Entering the Soldier's Field Road office of the Coca-Cola Bottling Co., we learned that all the company's executives were involved in meetings to decide the management's next move. We left the office in search of a representative of the striking delivery...
Puffing on a pipe in his book-lined living room in Cherry Cottage, Buckinghamshire, Clement Attlee, old soldier (a major in World War I) and mild-seeming architect of Britain's 1945 Labor revolution, was in a mood to speak out; he was under the impression that the go-minute interview would not be shown on TV until after his death. But last week, as a result of some "fast talking" by his interviewer (and old friend) Francis Williams, Lord Attlee agreed to a 45-minute version to be shown over the BBC on his 76th birthday. Among...
...Gaulle: "A very good fellow. I reviewed his book and I said then, General de Gaulle is a very good soldier and a very bad politician. He wrote back to me saying, 'I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians...
Eisenhower: "Ike? Oh, a very good fellow. Extremely good diplomat. Man to get 'em all working together. A man of courage. Not a great soldier ... I begged him not to [go into politics]. I said, since George Washington none of your soldiers have made very good politicians. I said the most successful was Harrison; he died within three months...
...once-lean soldier is now a man with considerable frontage; thick glasses give him the effect of walking unseeing. The effect has increased his air of austere remoteness. Outside his family, there is no man who can honestly call himself De Gaulle's friend, and anyone who strives to achieve uninvited intimacy with him is brusquely repulsed. On a flight to Algiers a few weeks ago, mercurial Léon Delbecque, one of the organizers of the insurrection that led to De Gaulle's return to power, plumped himself down in the seat opposite the general. Hastily, De Gaulle summoned...