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Transcendent military genius, scholar, historian, statesman, our much beloved Colonel has counseled our legislators, our executives, our admirals, our generals in a most wise and kindly manner. Always humble, modest and self-effacing, he has never boasted of his own great learning and accomplishments. Yet upon his guidance has rested the safety and the greatness of our country. He, and he alone brought victory for America...
Conspirator & Statesman. World War I plunged young Dr. Benes from university teaching into political conspiracy. His objective, fathered by Masaryk: to form an independent republic amid the dissolution of the Habsburgs' crumbling Dual Monarchy...
...common knowledge that he conducted one of the great strategic military campaigns of all time. He outgeneraled and outfought the minor-league Japs like the major leaguer he is. And now, his masterly administration of beaten Japan should be enough to convince all doubters that he is a major statesman...
Lord Keynes, adviser to the British Treasury, now in Washington on business (TIME, Oct. 8) wrote to London's New Statesman and Nation to clear up two slight cases of mistaken identity: 1) because he had concluded his book The Economic Consequences of the Peace with a few lines from Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, a lot of people got the idea that Keynes himself had written them; 2) another time he quoted 20 lines of Milton's Samson Agonistes, and was paid for them "at so much a word . . . though my glory was a little dimmed...
...talking. Halifax, chin in hand, listens with an air of attentive patience, occasionally lifts his eyes in amazement at Economist Keynes's memory for facts & figures. Their associate, Sir Henry Self, who looks like an Irish patriot's caricature of a hard-eyed, thin-lipped Sassenach statesman, rarely makes a remark...