Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Cripps went home to devalue the pound, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin stayed on in Washington. He had a meal with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Vice President Barkley and Senator Tom Connally. Then Bevin and Acheson settled down with platoons of experts to compare their views of the world. They discussed...
...King's letter went on & on in that vein. What it boiled down to in the American language was: "Oliver, we're getting along all right with the Americans, but the situation is ticklish and might come unstuck. Go over there and keep a sharp eye on things, keep in touch with the right people, keep selling the good old Empire-and don't let Bertie McCormick bite...
...Franks and asked him if they were right. Franks told him candidly they were wrong. But as Beaverbrook was still reluctant to admit the error to his archfoe, Bevin, he ordered Franks to try to find some way to reconcile these figures with the right ones. Franks smiled, went to work with his statisticians and devised an ingenious way of doing it. Having proved he could achieve this little triumph of twisted cunning, Franks burst out laughing. "That," said he, "is what I would call chicanery. Now let's get the real figures...
...year's end, his job superlatively done, Franks went back again ("to recharge my batteries") to his beloved Oxford. This time London gave him two months, then sent him to Washington...
Last year he went to Yugoslavia on an official visit. At the beautiful beach of Abbazia on the Adriatic, Rankovich entertained Rajk. The Yugoslav Communist led the Hungarian into a small room. They had several glasses of slivovitz, and then Rankovich told Rajk that Tito planned to overthrow Hungary's Communist-dominated government because it was loyal to> Stalin. Rankovich asked Rajk's help. To make it clear that a refusal would be inadvisable, Rankovich drew a paper from his pocket; it was a photostat of the paper Rajk had signed...