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Next morning the Russians assembled at Seoul's railroad station. The Americans saw them off. Generals Arnold and Shtykov chatted pleasantly for half an hour. Vodka was poured. As the Soviet train pulled north toward Korea's iron curtain, the last Russian visible, standing in the rear door of the end coach, was a Tommy-gunner...
...President Félix Gouin's state luncheon, Ernie Bevin tried to link the nations with a "peace cocktail": one-half English gin, one-quarter Russian vodka and one-quarter French vermouth. Gastronomically, at least, things were vastly improved: Gouin's guests ate homard parisienne, poularde du Mans à la broche, pommes noisettes, asperges de Lauris-sauce mousseline, fromages, parfait Grand Marnier, mignardises, accompanied by white Burgundy, red Bordeaux, champagne, coffee, . Armagnac, Benedictine and Cointreau...
Eight long months ago the Ada Rehan, her reputation spotless, had sailed out of San Francisco on a two weeks' voyage to New Orleans. A wireless message from the War Shipping Administration changed her course for Chile. Over vodka and rum in Shanghai a sailor recalled that first leg of a voyage that was to last eight hectic months: "It was like a bunch of amateurs was running things...
...transfer to Special Services as a one-man entertainment unit. One night at a G.I. concert in Munich he got special traveling orders. It turned out to be the Potsdam Conference. When List played from the Tchaikovsky concerto, Stalin jumped up to propose a toast in vodka, and List had a chance to talk to him. "I said 'I like Tchaikovsky,' and he said, 'Good, I do too.' I said, 'I played the first American performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Concerto in 1934,' and Stalin said 'Good.' " Winston Churchill requested...
...Friday some of the tenseness was gone. At an open meeting, Lange twitted Ala about Gavam's going to Moscow "merely to attend a vodka party," was not offended when Ala got the best of the exchange by cracking back that Gavam got "plenty of vodka and caviar" but had not sold out his country...