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...guests kept pouring out Franco-German friendship. At one particularly ebullient moment, De Gaulle rose with a toast to "the friendship that our two peoples have sealed, guided by reason and emotion alike." Then a messenger arrived from the Quai d'Orsay, bearing an urgent news dispatch for Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. It was datelined Ravensburg, West Germany, and it froze the frail Couve in his mahogany chair. It also launched one of the stormiest-and most ludicrous-weeks to date in the increasingly difficult area of Franco-German relations...
...Many? The dispatch reported that Willy Brandt had just told a rally of his Social Democratic Party that De Gaulle, far from being a friend, was a "power-thirsty old man" obsessed by "rigid, un-European ideas." Stunned, Couve said to an aide: "Power-thirsty! Perhaps Herr Brandt had one glass too many." When De Gaulle heard the news, he was furious. Next morning he summoned Couve to the Elysée Palace, and Couve in turn summoned German Ambassador Manfred Klaiber to demand an explanation. The ambassador was in agony. He apologized profusely for the dispatch, which had been...
What has been demonstrated by the attacks, said the determinedly antiwar St. Louis Post-Dispatch, is the "hollowness of the Saigon government's pretensions to sovereignty in the cities, the fraud of our Government's claims of imminent victory, and the basic untenability of the American military position." The more hawkish Houston Post took a different view of the attacks. "Except for the loss of life," said the paper, "the raids would have had a comic book character. They were reminiscent of the raids upon the American naval vessels by Japanese kamikaze pilots during World...
Harvard's eight men should break the meet open for Harvard with dispatch. Ron Wilson is a sure bet for first, as he has been all year. Charlie Ajootian and Bruce Hendenal, who double in the shot, could be second and third...
...February 7 AP dispatch from Ben Tre, describing its 45-85% destruction, a U.S. major says "it became necessary to destroy the town to save it." This sums up our war-policy more succinctly than its most eloquent critics and indicates how far we have travelled in the realms of hypocritical self-justification. We are close to the famous words of the bishop at the siege of Beziers, who was asked how to distinguish loyal citizens from Albigensian heretics: "Kill them all, God will know his own." Torquemada, weeping for the souls of unbelievers he had saved by burning their...