James W. Gerard, ex-Ambassador to Germany, the first speaker of the evening, said that at that moment he would like to be a fly on the wall of the palace at Potsdam to hear what the Potsdam gang were saying about our soldiers.

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I helped organize a sit-down outside an Oxford hairdressers' shop that refused black female customers.

This should be borne in mind whenever alcohol has been measured in serum or plasma in hospital prior to death or where a pre-mortem hospital sample of serum or plasma is subsequently analyzed for alcohol.