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Welcome. In the King's richly decked tent the Generals got a royal welcome. Ibn Saud liked the Lend-Lease pretties, gave a little Lend-Lease-in-Reverse: to each visitor an Arab costume, headgear and all; to the Generals, jewel-studded swords; to their aides, watches and daggers. The monarch, according to old Arab custom, pressed his guests to stay at least three days. But the Generals were not on vacation. Two hours after their arrival they said farewell, climbed aboard their modern magic carpet, turned Cairoward...
...summer of 1932, while Germany and Russia were still slapping each other's backs, Manstein donned civilian clothes, went to Russia for a look. At the Kharkov station a leather-jacketed Soviet commissar bounced in, offered Manstein vodka and zakuska. While the surprised visitor was gulping the fiery drink, another commissar dashed in, pulled the first one aside. Both then approached Manstein, stuttering, red-faced: "Mistake. ... It was a mistake. . . . We thought you were Comrade Thälmann...
...straight revival. Suspecting that nobody would walk a mile for a Camelot he saw 16 years ago, Messrs. Fields, Rodgers & Hart have redecorated King Arthur's court - waxed the Round Table, polished the armor, restrung the harps, put a Navy uniform on the startled and startling visitor. The result, despite a slow start and a rather trying book, is a likable and lilting piece of Yankee-panky...
...Berlin's "Army" was never like this. There was no bedside telephone, but the room was carpeted and curtained. There were twin beds, easy chairs-all the comforts of the travel folders. He looked back on the day. He had been met at the train like a distinguished visitor. The lumpy overseas kit he had personally lugged from New York to Britain and back had been picked up and carried for him. He had been driven to the hotel, registered and roomed like a guest. He had heard someone say that there would be no formations, that the first...
...tracing of it, his verse and his prose must be studied together. So must his biography. An Englishman born in India, Kipling was neither Englishman nor Indian, yet "he might almost be called the first citizen of India." As such, he saw England and the world as might "a visitor from another planet." But though he was one of the least subjective of poets, Kipling was by no means detached. His first all-absorbing aim was to preach Empire and the men who extended and sustained it. Later on "he is more concerned with the problem of the soundness...