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...King Farouk thought the British were to blame for Egypt's censorship. Thought the editors: "Not entirely. The King's own Ministers had been too fond of that weapon...
Joseph E. Davies, rich, Russia-fond ex-U.S. Ambassador (Mission to Moscow), was awarded the Order of Lenin for his "successful activities in strengthening Soviet-American relations...
...less a man of action than perhaps any other American hero. His character was more complex, harder to classify than most. But as a youth he was not precocious or abnormal in the usual sense. He was tall, redheaded, a good horseman, a fiddle player, a hunter, youthfully fond of girls, dancing, cards and conversation. He youthfully spent too much money in his first year at William and Mary (playing cards and sowing his wild oats) and youthfully resolved to do better the next year. But-unyouthfully-he kept his resolve, studied 15 hours...
...also fond of automobiles, telephones and radios, all of which he has put to good use in unifying the scattered tribes in the wastes of his domain. When Ibn Saud introduced the telephone, some of Saudi Arabia's more fanatical isolationists cried that it was a work of the devil. Replied Ibn Saud: "Of a certainty if it is the work of the devil, the holy words of the Koran will not pass over it." Holy words passed over the new line in Riyadh to Mecca; the objectors subsided. The money for these innovations comes largely from two sources...
...Follow the bent of your own mind-do not paint to order," wrote Mount in one of his notebooks. In his comfortable village, surrounded by well-off relatives with whom he lived, he could well afford to follow his bent. He was an accomplished fiddler and he was also fond of conviviality ("I must visit the ladies more frequently-go to apple peelings and quiltings"). Hangovers occasionally interrupted his work...