Sublime

Promotion was strictly by seniority, advancement was slow,

It was at the bar of White’s, one of the most exclusive gentleman’s clubs in London, that Stirling first learned about a form of soldiering that seemed much closer to the adventure and excitement he had in mind: a crack new commando unit intended to hit important enemy targets with maximum impact. Stirling’s cousin Lord Lovat had been among the fir

FDR would be the firm’s front man on Wall Street, for which Black agreed to pay him $25,000 a year, five times his salary at the Navy Department. It was an arrangement from which both stood to profit. The hemorrhaging of Roosevelt’s finances would be stanched, and Black would benefit from Franklin’s name on the masthead.

Lee Kuan Yew: The state should provide its people with the maximum enjoyment of freedoms and respect the family unit. The state should embrace multiple nations yet demand loyalty

Gubbins had won his MC as a gunner in the First World War, fought against the Bolsheviks in revolutionary Russia and against Sinn Fein in the Irish Civil War of 1922–3, and spoke French, Russian and Urdu.

“Not wishing to be accused of trying to use the Americans to pull British chestnuts out of the fire,” said senior agent Christopher Montague Woodhouse, “I decided to emphasize the Communist threat to Iran rather than the need to recover control of the oil industry.”