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...Europeans. Swallowing their pride and reversing centuries-old tradition, the British decided in mid-1961 to cross the Channel and make common cause with the Continent. Then last week, just as they were within sight of their goal, Charles de Gaulle of France contemptuously closed the door on perfidious Albion...
...with Italy? As a result, Macmillan has deepened France's ancient mistrust of perfidious Albion, while the Kennedy Administration's consultations with Whitehall have become ever more perfunctory on such life-or-death issues as Berlin and Cuba. The Administration's abrupt announcement that it planned to scuttle Skybolt left Britons shocked and disillusioned by what seemed to be a brutal rejection of their nation's claim to equal partnership with the U.S. The U.S., rued the Tory Spectator, kicked Britain "down the nuclear league to end up tying with, perhaps, Italy...
...said that an Englishman is a gentle man with women and a pirate in business, and a Frenchman a gentleman in business and a pirate with women, to suggest that pi racy is the key to success. Albion is usually represented by an English gentleman who is one of the most delightful creatures the earth has ever seen, in sofar as it is a question of a hurt swallow or a round of golf, but as soon as it is a question of commerce, the mild gentleman may be come a terrible and stubborn clog...
...ALBION COLLEGE...
...standard references for courses--house-hold words, if you will: "Mint Juleps" for History 165, Paul Buck's History of the South; "Ren and Ref" for History 130, Myron Gilmore's The Age of the Renaissance and Reformation; "Boats" for History 163, Maritime and Naval History with Robert Albion; "Rice Paddies" for Social Sciences 111, The History of Far Eastern Civilization; and "Chink Think" for Humanities 112, Classics of the Far East...