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...prose is the product of Lieut. Colonel Chet Hansen, an ex-newspaperman who planned to leave but has been persuaded to stay on-to finish Bradley's memoirs. Of the host of other U.S. postwar memoirs, few have come into print without a touch of ectoplasmic eloquence. Two recent exceptions to the rule: General Dwight D. Eisenhower's and General George Kenney...
...that he had. What was Chambers' conception of an oath? "I had a Communist's conception of an oath. That it had no binding force on a Communist." Chambers admitted that as a Communist courier he had been "in fact a traitor." Cross went into his more recent, non-Communist past. Chambers admitted that he had lied when he first told a grand jury that he knew of no espionage activities...
...know what it wanted. At least as far as Western Europe was concerned, the U.S. objective was clear. It was "integration." Some Europeans have professed not to know what the U.S. means by integration; others suggest that the U.S. itself does not know what it means. In recent weeks, ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman, integration's foremost prophet and promoter, as well as other EGA officials, has made its meaning perfectly plain...
...called on Chanis in the Presidencia only ten days earlier, frostily announced that the U.S. had not yet recognized the new regime. Unperturbed, Arnulfo replied that recognition was "only a question of time." Even Miller had said that after a period of observation, the U.S., following recent hemispheric practice, could consult with other American republics about resuming normal relations...
Friends of Winston Churchill, on the eve of his 75th birthday, recalled a recent Churchillism on the subject of old age: "I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." In the first issue of the Italian magazine Insieme (Together), which the publishers had promised would stress "the exaltation of family life," Co-Editor Countess Edda Ciano wrote unashamedly that she had been born out of wedlock to Benito Mus solini and Rachele Guidi, who was later his wife. "For many years, unaware of being a bastard...