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...tripartite British-German-U.S. talks in London on the question of Anglo-American forces in West Germany, Wilson's representative argued that Britain's pound and balance-of-payments position were so strained that the government would have to slash its 55,000-man British Army of the Rhine by two-thirds unless the West Germans helped to offset its foreign-exchange costs of $250 million a year. But also last week Wilson jetted to The Hague on his fifth mission to Common Market countries and reiterated a now familiar theme. His argument: the pound has become...
Kennedy started out Jan. 25 ahead of 16 other members of Congress bound for a seminar on Anglo-American af fairs at Ditchley Park in England.* By the time he returned at the end of last week, he had touched down in London, Paris, Bonn and Rome; he had talked with prime ministers and foreign ministers, Charles de Gaulle and Pope Paul, students and showfolk and assorted beautiful people. With an eye to future change, he saw opposition leaders too. Bobby also wanted to meet Mai Van Bo, the North Vietnamese envoy in Paris, but U.S. embassy officials dissuaded...
...there is one quality common to all these stories from the dual Anglo-American tradition as well as European sources, it is the concern for fiction as a revelation of the truth. The private vision, because it seeks no corroborating evidence, must carry conviction of itself. It is this seriousness-even in the comic vein of a Saul Bellow-which makes Jean-Paul Sartre's satirical portrait of a protoFascist, Childhood of a Leader, seem as frivolous in this company as a mere cartoon. The same quality makes the similarity-a glum but grimly maintained Freudo-Marxist determinism-between...
...twice more in the next decade, they brought forth a scroll that stretched for three miles and contained 1,200,000 signatures. Each time the lawmakers bluntly rejected their demands. Despite this failure, the Chartist movement was a dramatic expression of a right that runs threadlike through Anglo-American history, secured in Eng land first by the barons, then by Parliament, and finally by the people. In the U.S., the right "to petition the government for a redress of grievances," protected in the First Amendment of the Constitution, importantly reinforces the power of the ballot and gives citizens the chance...
...crucible of Anglo-American law is the "adversary" trial, in which rival lawyers fight for their clients' claims before an impartial tribunal in a contest that idealists bill as a search for truth. In U.S. criminal trials, however, the search can be more of a game of bluff, suspense and surprise, with both sides trying to spring unexpected evidence that can demolish the unwary. Among many examples was the recent Candy Mossier murder case: a Texas convict testified that Candy had given him $7,000 to kill her husband-whereupon Defense Lawyer Percy Foreman dramatically produced...