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...Jordan, the next stop, greeted Dulles with an olive branch, which someone thrust into his hand, and an unscheduled, indignant lecture. Said Aaref el Aaref, Arab historian and former mayor of Jerusalem's Old City: "Our . . . friendship has been imperiled by the Truman Administration, which not only created Israel but has been keeping it as a thorn in our side." Replied Dulles: "At home we Americans heatedly debate many issues, but we are not in the habit of criticizing one another outside the country. I therefore cannot agree with your criticism of a former American Administration." At a candlelight...
...ablest of all German generals," British Military Historian Liddell Hart called him. "Our finest operational brain," said Panzer General Heinz Guderian, an exacting judge. Erich von Manstein charted the daring Panzer thrust through the Ardennes that split the Allied armies and defeated France, and was assigned to lead the German landing in Britain (Operation Sea-Lion ) that never happened (because the amazing British beat off Goring's air assault). In Russia, he opened the fortified gateway to the Crimean peninsula, stormed the Russian Black Sea naval bastion at Sevastopol, and led the counterattack that retook Kharkov in March...
...young prisoners. Said she, in a voice of authority: "Let them go now; I take full responsibility," and waved the prisoners away. The peasants called her a Woman of the Sidhe, one with magic powers. Her fame spread. An elderly English liberal baronet followed her to a Donegal cottage, thrust a diamond pendant into her hand as he unsuccessfully proposed. Said Maud: "I thank you for the gracious thought, and your kindness shall not be wasted. This jewel will save this family from eviction...
Many have remarked about the curious inability on the part of the Lampoon to picture the touching scene over Red Square. The Ibis, with the graceful arch of its beak thrust into the Moscow snow, would probably overlook the tomb of John Reed, a former Communist Lampoon editor and one of four men to be buried in the Kremlin...
...summer of 1951, Li Mi was ready to attack Red China. In a quick thrust, his men drove 50 miles into Yunnan. The Communists counterattacked and drove Li's men pell-mell back into Burma, but did not follow up their victory. Li Mi licked his wounds, lived off the land, extended his control over east Burma (see map). The weak Burmese government-which had won its independence only five years before from the British-was too busy fighting Karen rebels and two different camps of local Communists to deal with Li Mi's men. Growing stronger...