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Pyle sat through the interview in a daze, went back to his tent and brooded for hours. Finally he cabled his New York office that he could not write the Darlan story. Instead he wrote about the stranger who had died in the ditch beside him. For days he talked of giving up and going home. But when the shock wore off, he knew for sure that his job was not with the generals and their strategems but with the little onetime drugstore cowboys, clerks and mechanics who had no one else to tell their stories...
This quaint view of Bretton Woods (taken by "Sagittarius" of London's New Statesman & Nation) was no stranger than some of the things that went on at the International Monetary Conference last week...
...Weaker Sex. Stranger still was a spate of stories about women snipers fighting for the Germans. Said General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, commander of Allied Ground Forces in France: "There were a number of stout-hearted women snipers who were killed doing their stuff...
...Negro's story: the woman was no stranger to him, he had been with her twice before and each time had paid her a pound note, he had made a date with her for that moonlit night. According to other testimony, her husband had been in the cottage at the time. A civilian police surgeon who examined the woman found no visible signs that she had put up any fight. The Negro said that he had been without food for 24 hours when he signed a confession...
...Ambassador. Georgi Nikolayevitch Zarubin had never been in Canada before, but he was no stranger to North America. As an engineer, he helped run the Soviet Exhibit at the New York World's Fair, then went home to head up the Kremlin's North American department. With him to Canada he brought his wife, their 14-year-old son Victor, six trunks, twelve suitcases and the 65-volume Soviet Encyclopedia (Moscow's official compendium of information about the U.S.S.R.). After the barest formalities he settled down to run Ottawa's Soviet Embassy. Under a Minister...