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...words, when used by statesmen, mean anything, this communique meant...
Died. Loreto Santarelli, 57, soft-tongued, Italian-born maître d'hôtel of London's big, swank Savoy since 1926, inventor of Britain's war-famed Woolton Pie (crusted vegetable stew with bacon rinds), confident to gourmets, statesmen, royalty; of a heart attack; in London. Released after brief internment at the beginning of the war, British Subject Santarelli guided his guests politely among steel girders to the Savoy's emergency bomb-cellar dining rooms during the blitz...
Meanwhile, the German populace played dumb, made life hell for A.M.G. by ignoring its directives. While Japan held out in the east, German statesmen played one Ally against another, set up stooge "agencies" in Spain and Argentina. They even got permission to manufacture arms-ostensibly for Allied use against Japan, for which they were paid in gold from Fort Knox. Finally, they united under the führership of a shepherd named Friedolin, who lived simply in the mountains with two canaries and no plumbing and swore to lead his German flock to salvation through penance. U.S. and British citizens...
Died. Sir William Mulock, 101, eldest of Canada's elder statesmen; in Toronto. In 1906, he dissuaded a young Harvard graduate from a teaching career, thus introduced William Lyon Mackenzie King to Canadian politics. Sir William spent 23 years in politics, 31 years on the Ontario bench, 20 years as Chancellor of the University of Toronto...
Some time soon, Cordell Hull hinted, Big Four statesmen of a higher rank than the Dumbarton Oaks delegates will get together and approve this tentative outline. Early in 1945, the plan will be presented to the U.S. Senate in full-blown treaty form, and then at last the U.S. may hear the many-times postponed Great Debate...