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...moribund refugee organizations-which claim to speak for more than 12 million Germans exiled from German lands now in Communist hands-visited Adenauer to warn of restiveness in their ranks since the Oder-Neisse talk started. The presidents of four North German states wrote, warning the Chancellor not to bind the Federal Republic so closely to France and the Common Market countries, that traditional North German trade ties to Britain and Scandinavia would be hurt...
...fanatic nature of some of the Communist stalwarts was surprising, especially the Iraqi and Saudi Arabian party members. Their idea of fun was to gather in the Afro-Asian restaurant every night from 11 until 3 a.m., and bind themselves together in a frenzy of red wine and an orgy porgy of "peace and friendship...
Reasons for this difference in attrition rates are not difficult to find, but it is nigh impossible to find a single explanation suitable for all cases. Catholics and Episcopalians have, of course, much more to bind them to their faith than Protestants with a weaker liturgical tradition which occupies a smaller part of their time. Several Episcopal students have attended the Congregational services in Mem Church and have returned praising the sermon, but shuddering at the "aridness" of the service. Those Anglicans who change their religion generally convert to Roman Catholicism, keeping the service but changing the philosophy...
Determined, like her cousin Queen Elizabeth to bind the British commonwealth by charm, blue-eyed Princess Alexandra, 22, made her first official visit without her mother, the Duchess of Kent, to an overseas dominion-Australia. After spending three weeks trudging up and down the continent, she demonstrated her famed light touch by taking off her shoes to walk barefoot across the sands of Lindeman Island, off Australia's east coast...
...week, Gaitskell again asserted his leadership. To promise unequivocally to renounce the bomb as Cousins demanded, said Gaitskell, would be "escapist, myopic and positively dangerous to the peace of the world." He refused to give such a pledge, and denied the right even of a Labor Party Conference to bind "those of us who have the responsibility of leadership" in a future Labor government. To ban the bomb unilaterally "would be handing the Soviet Union the power to overrun Europe, without any fear of retaliation...