ON THE FLIP SIDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100010053-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: March 24, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

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stantly reminded of the Cincinnatus
-THE LAST OF THE GIANTS 'I-,-'
By C. L. Sulzberger. oors. But then he hits the essence
Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1,06-/ gaullism in the next sentence :
Perhaps the. clue to his character was not
pages. f6. simply the impulse to say " No," but that
FALLEN OAKS
CPYRGHT he was at ease'only when he said "No.
By Andre Malraux. o' there is great contempt for th
amish Hamilton; 123 pages. t1. ompidous of the world who believ
Conversations with the great tend to ings can be solved by getting peopl
produce better anecdotes a year later o lunch together. That, of cours
than weighty reporting the next day. ould never do for journalists, M
When the great are seriously selling a Sulzberger among them. Not muc
? line they are invariably dull and isses his eye or ear ?t Tito pqurin
:unpersuasive; when they are not selling laret into his champagne (lcarnc
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a line they much..prefer to talk a
the past or people of the past, and so Bernhard drinking only bourbo
say things that are glad and sad by because the Germans had robbed hi
turns but are not history, and are not of his scotch, an ill Dulles saying " th
immediately printable if the journalist ell with it 'I in Paris and taking tw
wants to be asked back again. portions of lobster bisque.
So Mr Sulzbcrger's anecdotes o There are,. naturally,, ' man
everyone from de.(;aulle and Churchil 'unguarded remarks. George Brow
to forgotten diplomats and Africans- i declares Gaitskell . "is always a
a highly readable and enjoyable fli when . troubles comes." Macmilla
side to his staid, responsible, ask-me admits on the common market in 196
back columns in the New York Times that he has no alternative policy
'To M. Malraux no cliche uttered i have always made it a rule in my liffi,
his presence, far less one by himself to avoid fall-back positions. When yo t
is devoid of philosophical importance have a fall-back 'position, you always
So he is a trifle high-falutin'; but sine fall back." Allen Dulles of the CI.
not many people got to hear de Gaulle' boasts : " The Russians are to sma t
last table talk his recollections, too, ark. to put bases on Cuba." Dean Acheso
? entertaining : a sort of -flip manda muses on Dulles -and Selwyn Lloyd :
rinese. "They're a pair of slick lawyers tryin
Mr Sulzberger's Churchill is almo to outsmart each other." An
in a half-world : Chartwell had Randolph Churchill and Julian Amer
visibly declining owner ' whereas th will not mention Eden in July, 19551
-Boisserie never quite seemed to, eve except as '.'the jerk."
at the end. Churchill in 1956 has thr
glasses of wine, two of port and
of brandy at lunch, reads his boo s
aloud, plays with his carp and defen s ? .
Stalin (who "never broke his wo
to me "). But although his lucidity
.longer has a dynamo to keep it goin ,
he seems more at peace with desti
than Malraux's report of de. Gaull
living with his cat, two television se
his trees and the stars. The general s
profoundly pessimistic, surviving " co -
sciously at the end of a civilisation "
watching " the funeral procession of a
world." Nixon is popular " becau e
Asia still believes peace to be possible "
But that is a Pandora's box :
I don't believe the United States, in sp to
of its power, has a long-term policy. is
desire, and it will satisfy it one day, is to
desert Europe. 'You will see. ?
That is the authentic voice of ga 1-
lism all right, and it explains. t Le
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