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Less rhetorically, the disbanding H.G.s talked over old times in pubs and clubs: the early days when they drilled with broomsticks, blunderbusses, even pikes and halberds; the later days of spit-&-polish parades, beach and battle maneuvers; the outlandish lessons in stabbing, stunning, strangling; the long, nodding nights of standing guard...
...Kaishek, he slipped away from Chungking to Nanking. Japan, looking fora puppet, grabbed him eagerly, made him premier and president of the Axis-recognized Nanking government. For this crowning act of apostasy the Chinese erected in Chungking a life-size statue of Wang, naked and grovelling, for all to spit upon...
...Hodges headquarters is businesslike, brisk but quiet. The General is no spit-&-polish stickler but, a thorough precisionist, he insists on detailed planning. If there has been a mistake, he wants it thoroughly aired when he meets his staff at 0900 each morning. He addresses his officers by their first names, but his staffers call him "General...
Socially, he is a man who cannot be missed. A man of exceptionally friendly and attractive personality, he rarely comes into a room without attracting attention. Militarily he is a martinet, a spit-& -polish soldier with the driving energy which is apt to characterize good officers. Administratively, he is Hollywood's dream of a big executive: he keeps two secretaries and three aides run ragged; while his satellites revolve around him, he ticks off his schedule with the inexorability of a clock...
This diplomatic spit & polish was the work of a tireless Frenchwoman, Mme. Simone Blanchard, who had been secretary at the Embassy when Ambassador Bullitt pulled out in 1941. She kept the place ready for instant reoccupancy...