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Thanks for your shilling friend; and fare thee well...
Korea, said he, was a "costly and staggering extravaganza." Postwar handouts to Western Europe had netted the U.S. not one "foul-weather friend." And the United Nations was a "hopeless instrumentality for world peace." Joe Kennedy, though as fervently anti-Communist as anyone could wish, favored abandoning Asia and Europe in the face of "massed manpower and military strength of a type that the world has never seen." He would concentrate U.S. troops and arms strictly in the Western Hemisphere...
...Minna was violent, "but because it had no basis in artistic sympathy could not last." He was drawn to two others but "the circumstance .. . tore them apart." (The precise circumstance: they were both married.) But such circumstances did not stop Wagner from running off with the wife of his friend Hans von Bülow, who conducted the first performance of Tristan. Cosima von Bülow, illegitimate daughter of Wagner's old friend and benefactor Franz Liszt, became Richard Wagner's second wife, died...
...Nonentity. When Harry Truman became President, Ross wrote for the P-D a cool, detached judgment of his old friend: "He has been called an average American, but he is better than average. He is not a nonentity and no Harding. He may not have the makings of a great President, but he has the makings of a good President." One of the first things President Truman did was to persuade Ross to give up his $35,000-a-year job with the P-D and become press secretary at $10,000 (later raised...
Died. Charles Griffith Ross, 65, lifelong friend of Harry Truman, since 1945 presidential press secretary and speechwriter; of a coronary occlusion; in Washington (see PRESS...