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...Winston Churchill last week described upright, dependable Anthony Eden to the House of Commons. It looked very much as if Churchill were promoting his choice for the next tenant of 10 Downing Street. Once known chiefly for his good looks, impeccable platitudes and his black homburg, Eden has steadily grown in stature by his sane and balanced arguments, his parliamentary and diplomatic steadiness. In the debates on Poland and Greece he was completely at ease before the House. As he spoke, he turned toward all parts of the Chamber, gestured, seldom referred to notes, discussed broad international problems with such...
Nimitz reached for his pen, gripped it in a hand gnarled by rheumatism (from submarine service a quarter of a century ago), and wrote in a neat, upright hand: "This operation has long been planned, and the opportunity to accomplish it fulfills the deeply cherished desire of every officer and man of the Pacific Fleet...
...before the showdown was "the night before somebody's Waterloo." And it was clear between the lines that Arthur Krock thought, and hoped, that the Waterloo would be Henry Wallace's. There was some reason for his belief. Anti-Wallacemen, like North Carolina's upright Josiah Bailey, seemed in complete control. Senator Barkley and Vice President Truman went humbly to Joe Bailey, pleaded with him for an hour to relent. "Holy Joe" Bailey would...
Voice of Freedom. MacArthur sat upright in the stern of the barge. When it grounded in shoal water, he walked down the ramp and waded ashore. He was wet to the midriff, but the sun glinted on the golden "scrambled eggs" on his strictly individualistic cap as he faced a microphone. To Filipinos his first words were the fulfillment of a promise: "This is the Voice of Freedom." That was how the last Corregidor radio programs began. Said Douglas MacArthur...
Harold J. Laski, Britain's brilliant, bucktoothed, left-wing economist, plunged five flights without getting out of bed when a Nazi robomb wrecked his hotel. The bed landed upright. Occupant Laski: unhurt...