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...both his nation and the world sensed the magnitude of their loss. At the tiny country churchyard where he was buried and along Paris' Champs-Elysées, hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen paid him homage. The world's dignitaries journeyed to Paris for a memorial service in greater numbers than for any other event in French history. Le Monde called it "a planetary mourning." Flags were lowered to half-mast not only in Paris but also in London and far-off Peking. Among thousands of condolence messages that reached Madame de Gaulle was one from China...
...camouflaged control tower. A Nigerian night fighter nicknamed "Genocide" tried to pick them off as they landed; occasionally he was successful. All told, ten cargo planes were shot down or crashed during the 31 months of the war and 25 crewmen were killed. Many are buried in a neat churchyard near...
...most effective speeches, Wilson spoke of "a Britain full of life and vigor and achievement" after his five years in office. He promised better times to come and compared the Tories to poor-mouthing "Victorian undertakers welcoming a wet winter and the promise of a full churchyard." Labor delegates, who have sat on their hands after some of Harold's sorrier speeches, gave him a two-minute standing ovation, and even the independent Times of London acknowledged his speech as "one of the best in recent years by any party leader...
...would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets...
Pushed against the railings of the churchyard and the church walls, the believers, far from objecting, look around nervously for fear of getting a knife in the back, or of having their watches stolen-the watches on which they keep track of the remaining minutes before the Resurrection of Christ. Here, outside the church, they, the Orthodox, are much fewer than the grinning, milling rabble who oppress and terrorize them more than ever did the Tartars. The Tartars, surely, would have let up for Matins on Easter Sunday...