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...good-will trip through the East. Thousands of Korean children lined the streets to see him driven into town from the city airport, and he returned the compliment by ordering his car stopped time & again, getting out, and giving them flowers taken from his wife's bouquet. When he was driven into Tokyo (where he later rode in a gilded state coach to see the Emperor, and publicly announced that Japanese disarmament had been a U.S. mistake), he repeated the process, and shook hands, smiling, with dumfounded spectators along the curbs...
...whose life has been spent in conducting war against [the Reich]," Sir Winston urged the Bonn government to remember the famous maxim: "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." Presumably, he was advising Bonn to watch out for its domestic foes. ¶ The U.S. got a big Churchillian bouquet, and a homily on its past mistakes. "Had the U.S. taken before the First World War, or between the wars, the same interest and made the same exertions and run the same risks to preserve peace and uphold freedom which, I thank God, she is doing now, there might never have...
When Rita arrived, in a pale blue Irish linen dress with a toast-colored hat, tulle veil and a bouquet of white orchids and lilies of the valley. Groom Haymes was on her arm. Six feet in front of them marched Pressagent Freeman, to give photographers a focusing point for their cameras. (To make sure there would be plenty of time for pictures, Freeman also had arranged to have the judge come half an hour late...
...cooked and silver tea trays arranged for 70 extra royal relatives-more house guests than had slept there in 42 years. The Queen arose at 7:30 and kneeled briefly to pray. Her tea tray was brought in the same as everyday, except for a small bouquet of fresh flowers and a note: "With every possible good wish today and always. From Mac and Smith"-her personal maids. For the moment, the handmaidens ruled the Queen. Her beauty expert applied make-up specially concocted for its versatility in daylight or Abbey shadows, or under TV klieg lights-"a peach-tinted...
...Allmendingen's Bu germeister promptly closed the village school and marched the children, town councilors and teachers up to the castle for an official "Welcome Home" for the old (65) soldier. As a band oompahed Im Schdnsten Wiesengrnmde (In the Beautiful Meadow), Manstein, sallow and strained, took a bouquet of lilacs and tulips from the kiddies and said: "We hope for the reconciliation of all peoples and for unification of Europe." It was the eighth anniversary of Nazi Germany's surrender...