Dylan Matthews

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Evelyn Shuckburgh, private secretary to British foreign secretary Anthony Eden, summarized in his magnificently readable diary what he saw: “Everybody very angry, appeals, sentiment, Bidault looks like a dying man, Laniel is actually dying upstairs.… Outburst by Eisenhower and Winston, former left the conference table in a rage, came back, having changed for dinner, sat another four hours.”
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
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