 | Richard J. Barnet - 1983 - 516 頁
...Bordeaux, welcomed the Ford Motor Company's decision to build a plant in his city. "We, my dear Crossman, are Greeks in this American empire. You will find...with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt." The scene was wartime Algiers. Harold Macmillan, erstwhile publisher, Conservative member of Parliament,... | |
 | John A. Hall - 1994 - 590 頁
...Grossman whilst attached to Eisenhower's headquarters in Algiers in 1942: [We] are the Greeks in an American empire. You will find the Americans much...unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt. We must run this [HQ] as the Greek slaves ran the operations of the Emperor Claudius.57 Of course, this Polybian... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 頁
...silver goes, and then all that nice furniture that used to be in the saloon. Then the Canalettos go 2649 You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found...with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt. 2671 (on the life of a Foreign Secretary) Forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion. MacNEICE... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 頁
...goes, and then all that nice furniture that used to be in the saloon. Then the Canalettos go. 6772 You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found...also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also 6757 more corrupt. 6773 (ofAneurin Sevan) He enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist... | |
 | Bill Grantham - 2000 - 198 頁
...minister Harold Macmillan's famous wartime letter to a future cabinet minister, Richard Grossman: We ... are Greeks in this American Empire. You will find...vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoilt virtues but also more corrupt. We must run the [allied forces headquarters at which Macmillan... | |
 | Rick Atkinson - 2002 - 748 頁
...declared with perfect Oxbridge diction upon introducing himself to Eisenhower), advised a British officer: "You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found...unspoiled virtues, but also more corrupt. We must run AFHQ as the Greeks ran the operations of the Emperor Claudius." Yet a harsher, toxic tone now seeped... | |
 | Ulf Hedetoft, Mette Hjort - 2002 - 416 頁
...words to Richard Grossman while attached to Eisenhowers headquarters in Algiers in 1942: "[We] are the Greeks in this American empire. You will find the...much as the Greeks found the Romans — great big, bustling people, more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but Transatlantic... | |
 | Ulf Hedetoft, Mette Hjort - 2002 - 358 頁
...this American empire. You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans — great big, bustling people, more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but Transatlantic Images of Belonging = 57 = also more corrupt. We must run [this headquarters] as the... | |
 | Simon C. Smith - 2004 - 232 頁
...relations from his vantage point at the Allied Forces Headquarters in North Africa, Macmillan declared: We, my dear Grossman, are Greeks in this American...unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt. We must run AFHQ as the Greeks ran the operations of the Emperor Claudius. 9 Macmillan's attempts, following the... | |
 | Chris Patten - 2006 - 324 頁
...politician Richard Grossman in 1944 about America's leadership of the Allies, Harold Macmillan observed, "We, my dear Grossman, are Greeks in this American...unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt. We must run [the Allied forces headquarters] as the Greek slaves ran the operations of the Emperor Claudius." The... | |
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We, my dear Crossman, are Greeks in this American empire. You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans - great big, vulgar, bustling people, more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.... 