A private meeting with Hoover is like sitting in a both of ink.

We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another.

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.

When all the arguments have been forgotten, this central fact will remain. The two nations fought a single war, and their quarrels were the quarrels of brothers.

We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.