Understatement
Mary Homaday.
A newspaperman asked Secretary of State Cordell Hull whether a current magazine was correct in quoting him as describing former Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka as "crooked as a basket of fish-hooks." The sedate secretary, in his usual impassionate tone, replied that he would prefer to have used stronger language but had decided to restrain
himself.-
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 August 1942, Page 2
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58Understatement Taranaki Daily News, 31 August 1942, Page 2
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