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Charles de Gaulle often acts more princely than presidential, and even his best friends suspect that he sometimes dreams of restoring monarchy to France with himself on the throne. Actually, De Gaulle wears the purple quite legitimately. He is Co-Prince of Andorra, a tiny (190 sq. mi.) principality high in the Pyrenees that has been the joint suzerainty of Spanish bishops and French rulers since the Middle Ages. None of the 46 French kings, emperors and presidents who preceded De Gaulle to the title had ever bothered to make a visit to Andorra. But Prince de Gaulle could...
...Gaulle's visit was staged in his usual royal manner. His advance party of 1,000 gendarmes prowled all over the principality looking for potential troublemakers, and even refused to let Andorra's 16-man militia fire a welcoming fusillade. The hundreds of stores that have transformed Andorra from a smugglers' paradise into Europe's largest duty-free shopping center were shuttered; the Tricolor was hoisted over the village-capital of Andorra la Vella. De Gaulle's aides reminded anyone who cared to listen that le grand Charles was, after all, the most important visitor...
...Americans in the 1930s, but events there led to World War II. Greece was an off-Broadway tragedy after World War II until Harry Truman decided to commit U.S. power there to stop a Communist takeover. Today, obscurity may be gently, even favorably, applied to such non-countries as Andorra, such splinter countries as Sikkim. But Galbraith is breathtaking in classifying as obscure all of Southeast Asia, an area of nearly 1,500,000 square miles and 200 million people...
...directed elsewhere, his Loeb friends will probably have seen his shows. But if he has no connections at the Loeb, he is far less likely to be chosen. Thus Robert Ginn, who has acted at the Loeb, was awarded a main stage show after directing Adams House's Andorra last Fall. A less well-known group from Lowell House is considered less likely to be chosen this Spring...
...Andorra is a play critics are likely to say that sort of thing about productions of. I can't and tend to think the poor timing...