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...people who offend Richards most are those who think Basic is a sort of pidgin English. Actually it is pure English, boiled down to a vocabulary of 18 verbs,* 85 "structure words" (prepositions, conjunctions, etc.), 600 nouns, 150 adjectives...
...tune, and the Times stuck to him-until Mussolini in 1939 forbade any Italian to work for a foreign newspaper. Thereupon the Times sent him, first to Mexico City for two years, then to Argentina. There he followed his old, pleasant habits. Only once did one of his articles offend: last August the Argentine Government jailed him for eleven hours, but (he wrote) "throughout . . . treated [me] with courtesy." Other foreign correspondents sneaked stories out (via Montevideo) about the oppressions of Argentine dictatorship. Reporter Cortesi argued urbanely with Argentine censors-but never once tried to by-pass them. Then, suddenly, fortnight...
...oath, Chief Justice Stone called the President: Harry Shippe Truman. Replying, Truman answered: "I, Harry S. Truman. . . ." Although his middle name has for years been printed as "Shippe," his middle initial "S" actually stands for nothing. Explanation: his grandfathers were named Anderson Shippe Truman and Solomon Young; to offend neither, Harry's parents gave him the common initial only...
...Latin Americans ganged up and almost put over a proposal for permanent mutual guarantees of their boundaries and independence. At this critical juncture, the U.S. delegation seemed to have an impossible choice: accept something which it could not legally approve without the Senate's consent, or grievously offend the Latin republics...
...Stettinius got off to an unhappy start, wound up the first sessions with a happy bang. Before the conference opened, he unfortunately committed the kind of blunders which often offend Latin Americans, sometimes make them think that the U.S. simply does not bother to learn its way around...