TACTICAL BLUNDER
BEER FOR MR LA GUARDIA (Rec. 0.30 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 11. When Mr F. H. La Guardia arrived in Prague he was offered, as he alighted from his plane, a glass of Pilsener beer, which he drank. Later, says the Sunday Dispatch, he made a statement declaring that the beer offered him caused him immediately to inform the U.N.R.R.A. staff that he would institute without delay a resurvey of Czechoslovakia’s grain needs with the likelihood that the grain programme for that country would be reduced. “I don’t think they will need any more grain when the director-general of U.N.R.R.A. is met with a glass of beer,” he said. “ Whoever planned that made a great mistake.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26228, 12 August 1946, Page 5
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