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Clearing the Way. Long before Tito and his Junoesque wife arrived at the Bois de Boulogne Station in their special blue and silver armor-plated train, all known anti-Titoist refugees in Paris were placed under surveillance. The most ardent of them were rounded up, along with a motley crew of anarchists, royalists, diehard Yugoslav Catholics and Cominform Communists, and shipped off to Corsica for a week's vacation-food, wine and sightseeing-at France's expense. A small army of about 15,000 police, plainclothesmen, helmeted Gardes Republicaines and firemen were deployed over Paris to help keep...
...people in the cast and 1,000 horses. Several regiments of the Spanish army were rented for the battle scenes, and a sizable slice of Spain was borrowed. Three towns were taken over for incidental scenes. Europe was ransacked for theatrical supplies: 1,800 suits of Greek and Persian armor, 450 swords, 200 bows, 3,000 arrows, 6,000 short spears and 400 long, 1,200 shields, 42 chariots, 600 other pieces of antique hardware. Dozens of himatia and chitons were run up by Spanish seamstresses from the ancient Greek models, and hundreds of wigs, beards and mustaches...
...early days nickel was almost entirely a war baby, whose greatest value was for armor-piercing shells and armor plate. Inco gyrated between boom and bust, went from a $10 million profit in 1917 to an $800,000 deficit in 1921 when defense needs slacked off, and the company actually had to shut down for twelve months, Stanley and Thompson worked years to find peacetime uses for the fabulous nickel lode, helped develop heavy-duty nickel steels for dozens of products, taught businessmen new ways to use nickel in household equipment, autos, steel and other products...
...fear is gone, or at least the urgent sense of it. "There ain't gonna be no war," cried Britain's Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan in the afterglow of Russian smiles at the first Geneva meeting at the summit. Last week the NATO nations, sweaty in their armor under the fitful post-Geneva sun, were somewhat shamefacedly wondering aloud whether all that weight was really necessary. They sometimes had the air of men trying to remember what all the excitement had been about. Implied but never stated was a bigger question: "Is NATO itself really necessary...
Reynaud is an honest, able man. His financial policies were more sensible than most. He could envision something of what a war of movement and armor would do to France's static infantry. Above all, he knew that Hitler was not Kaiser Wilhelm I, "the old gentleman who took Alsace Lorraine from us," but a modern Genghis Khan. He knew that Laval, "the Robert Walpole* of the rabble," was squalid and detestable; that Pétain was a defeatist who had to be "kicked into" his victories in World War I, and in World War II, in the absence...