We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand.
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I told him there was one city that they must not bomb without my permission and that was Kyoto.
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Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.
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The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.
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