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Even more educational was the composition of his memoirs. Painstakingly set down in elongated script, the memoirs were written in a classic prose Frenchmen had not seen in a long time???precise yet lyrical, stamped with honor, revealing the essential selflessness of a man dedicated to his nation's grandeur. On the strength of this literary achievement, France's intellectuals?who do so much to set their country's political tone?for the first time gave De Gaulle their wholehearted admiration.* And in the act of reducing his life to book form, the general reviewed his past mistakes, sketched...
...British) must be withdrawn. Foreign economic aid (meaning U.S.) must be subject to a commission that included Russia. Otherwise the situation would end in the servitude of Greece. (Later, Gromyko?who has conscientiously learned to speak excellent English even though he persists in speaking Russian most of the time???poked a pencil at the translator and said that he had meant "enslavement" and not "servitude.") Intervention by Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania was a "myth. Intervention cannot be concealed in bushes." As usual, Gromyko dragged his listeners around the same point through interminable repetitions. His reasoning was pervaded by the sublimely...
...Inner Circle. Actually, there is not much mystery about what Hopkins does, although there is plenty about how he does it. In the broadest terms, he works on whatever happens to be uppermost in Franklin Roosevelt's mind at the time???usually the most pressing immediate problem before the Administration. The minute such a problem is superseded in importance by another, Hopkins drops it and moves on to the next...
...certainly had the impression that for the first time???"the very first time"?it knew exactly what the military expected to be done in a given span. For the first time???"the very first time"?WPB considered that it had a specific, intelligible, practicable schedule of requested production, reasonably keyed to the actual production capacity of the U.S. The men in charge of war production were even able to visualize an overall, master plan for 1943?including a marked increase in the dollar-volume of aircraft, a great increase in the number of heavy, long-range bombers like...
...much momentum in the Air Service that in 1928 he skyrocketed to the rank of full "General of Air," next year entered the Mussolini Cabinet as its youngest member (33) as Air Minister. New Minister Balbo immediately removed Italy's three greatest air heroes of that time???de Bernardi, Ferrarino and de Pinedo?entirely from the public eye and from feats of air prowess, assassinated their fame to such an extent that today who remembers their names...