“Once I said to Konev, "You've made ten demands at this Council meeting that we can't meet. But suppose I should say, 'All right. We agree to all ten demands.' Then what would you do?" "Tomorrow," he said, "I'd have ten new ones."”

—  Mark W. Clark

Source: From the Danube to the Yalu (1954), p. 493

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