Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Macao rumor had it that he was sought by both the Chinese Central Government and the Communists as a collaborationist and profiteer. Despite the ransom note, many wondered whether the snatch at Kuan Yin Temple was for profit or politics-or both. At week's end the kidnappers upped the price to six piculs...
...sweating councilors had tortured their brains and their vocabularies to contrive a verdict that was no verdict at all. One suggestion: let the Council note the debate, along with a British promise to withdraw the troops. Cried Bevin: "Really, I am not so childish as to fall for that." Another suggestion: let the Council declare that Britain's troops in Greece were no danger to peace but would be withdrawn, anyway. Cried Vishinsky: "I will vote against...
...honor of the Red Army, coats and suits struck a martial note with padded shoulders and belted backs, but (and this was new) dressy hats helped soften the severity of line. Skirts were slim, with kickpleats back and front...
...Clapper did his dogged best to exclude these personal feelings from what he wrote. One Roosevelt story that Clapper never wrote, and his widow now tells, concerns a rumor that spread through Washington that Henry Morgenthau would become Ambassador to France. Franklin Roosevelt heard of it, jotted off a note to his Treasury Secretary: "Henry, see by the newspapers you are going to Paris. . . . As Al Smith is reported to have wired the Pope after the 1928 election-'Unpack...
...optimism, in the almost carefree mood of Richmond, any Confederate could take care of ten Yankees. The deceptive mood was heightened by the victory at Bull Run. General McClellan's guns, as he inched up the Peninsula less than a year later, sounded the first grim note...