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...what they said and did, men were still, as in the aftershock of a great wound, bemused and only semi-articulate, whether they were soldiers or scientists, or great statesmen, or the simplest of men. But in the dark depths of their minds and hearts, huge forms moved and silently arrayed themselves: Titans, arranging out of the chaos an age in which victory was already only the shout of a child in the street...
Visiting San Francisco, Hollywood, Tennessee Valley, Chicago, and New York, Mesbahzadeh met President Truman, Secretary Stimson, and other cabinet members, several congressmen, including Senators McKeller and Connally and Representative Clare Booth Luce. He spoke to these leading statesmen concerning Iran's contributions to the war-effort and, stating that America has definite responsibilities in the Near and Middle East, expressed the hope that in peace as in war she will continue to lend support to the small nations of the East...
That surprised stocky, Hungarian-born Emery Reves, prewar agent for most of Europe's writer-statesmen (Churchill, Eden, Reynaud, Sforza, etc.). From long experience Agent Reves thought that he knew an important document when he saw one. The Attlee piece was his first postwar offering. Last week, when Labor won and Attlee became Prime Minister, some 35 of the previously disinterested papers changed their minds, sent him rush orders for the article...
...little later the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum said they wanted us to prepare a similar gallery of our cover paintings (United Nations statesmen) to be shown during the San Francisco Conference...
Turkey's Foreign Minister Hasan Saka, homeward-bound from San Francisco, dropped off in London for a call on Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. High diplomatic secrecy muffled the 45-minute talk between the statesmen. But it could not muffle its importance...