It was generally conceded that had an election been held, Ho Chi Minh would have been elected Premier. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nothing creates trouble between allies so often or so easily as unnecessary talk — particularly when it belittles one of them. A family squabble is always exaggerated beyond its true importance.

The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where they [there] were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said that he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit [to Gotha] deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to "propaganda."

The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.