Who is this rare bird, perched at the eerie dead center of the world's hurricane, whom all men delight to praise? A Machiavelli with a Boy Scout's exterior? A gross flatterer? A Talleyrand subtler than Khrishna Menon? A monstrous appeaser? Clean is the word for Hammarskjold. - Alistair Cooke

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Alistair Cooke: "Who is this rare bird, perched at the eerie dead center of the world's hurricane, whom all men delight to praise? A Machiavelli with a Boy Scout's exterior? A gross flatterer? A Talleyrand subtler than Khrishna Menon? A monstrous appeaser? Clean is the word for Hammarskjold."

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Appeaser	Bird	Center	Clean
Dead	Delight	Eerie	Exterior
Flatterer	Gross	Hammarskjold	Hurricane
Khrishna	Machiavelli	Menon	Monstrous
Perched	Praise	Rare	Scouts
Subtler	Talleyrand	Whom	Word
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