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just at that moment, when the United Nations was about to be created and his dream come true. It was a very pathetic thing.

Of course, we then began to learn more about what had happened physically, this so-called massive thrombosis that had taken place, which means that it's so large that it can't possibly be absorbed. It was really extraordinary that he lived even as long as he did. I think he lived an hour and a half, something like that, but he was unconscious all of the time. He said, when the stroke first hit him, “Oh, I've got a terrible headache:”

His brain, obviously. Then he became unconscious. I learned this afterwards from the girls who were there, from Miss Tully and others, and from the old Negro woman who was his cook and his chambermaid--he always took her along when he went down there. I met her the next morning at the train, and she said, “Oh, he was so good. He was such a good patient. He was smiling. He was smiling to the end.”

I said, “Well, he didn't say anything?”

“No, he didn't say anything, but he looked up at me and he smiled.”

I mean, they were all very intimate down there, you see. It was just a little bit of a house and a little bit of a household, and they hurried around and helped each other all they





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