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...time Numan entered the Foreign Office at Ankara in 1929 as a departmental head, foreign attaches already knew this sick young man with an abscessed lung and deficient hearing as a cold, hard, calculating bargainer. When, 22 months ago, Numan's gradual ascent up the Foreign Office ladder brought him to the top rung as Minister, no one was surprised...
...naval chiefs, British Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay and U.S. Rear Admiral Alan Kirk. Then Ground Forces Commander General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery came aboard, in his favorite battle dress of fleece-lined jacket and corduroy trousers. After Monty had made his report he swung down a rope ladder to his launch, and looked up again, sharp-nosed, grinning, jaunty. Looking down at the great little soldier who, more than anyone, now carried the fate of the invasion in his thin hands, "Ike" gave him a thumbs-up and shouted: "Good luck...
...fruitless search for their insurance policy, the amateur fire-sniffers voted 23 to 2 to let the place burn down. Someone, however, had already asked the local hose-and-axemen to "send a man over." He came, but he brought his friends: three engine companies, two hook-and-ladder trucks and one rescue squad. No smoke, no fire, obviously a false alarm. Whether or not the whole thing was a stunt to increase sales of the new Spring issue, which for the first time in years showed, signs of passing the figures of "The Embalmers Journal," Poon officials declined...
High on a ladder in the British Admiralty's war room stood a WREN (British WAVE), sticking pins in a map which marked the progress of a North Atlantic convoy. A crusty British sea lord stalked in, glanced upward at the map. Said he: "Captain, that WREN will either have to wear pants or we will have to move the convoy to the South Atlantic...
From the Solomons, New Guinea. For 19 months, Rabaul has been the main objective of MacArthur's slow campaign across the eastern end of the New Guinea Peninsula, and of the Allies' converging drive up the ladder of the Solomons...