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...Rolls-Royce rolled into Grosvenor Square, from which General Eisenhower had directed his victorious World War II armies (G.I.s called the square "Eisenhower Platz"), a husky, shirtsleeved man said: "We like him because we remember him from the war-that's why." As President Dwight Eisenhower stood West Point straight, arms spread high and wide above him, an old lady said: "My, he looks better-after being so sick...
...emotions, too. There the President's car had been a Mercedes-Benz 300, and his greeting came from towns-Troisdorf, Plittersdorf, Bonn-that had been conquered by the U.S. First Army. But in old foe Germany, as in old ally Britain, the crowds made plain their confidence in Dwight Eisenhower as the free-world leader best qualified to quest for peace based upon strength and principle. Everywhere, the banners proclaimed, WE TRUST YOU and WE RELY...
...West Germany the turnout was for a onetime conqueror who had become a stout ally, boosted German pride and self-respect, assured U.S. support, guaranteed that Germany's new-found democratic freedom would sot be traded off in big-power parleys. In France this week new tumults awaited Dwight Eisenhower, not only as the liberator of 1944 but as a statesman willing to help France realize its aspirations for a return to national greatness...
...fifth time since Dwight Eisenhower took office in 1953, the U.S. Congress last week tried to override a presidential veto-and for the fifth time it failed. Last week's Senate vote of 55-40, nine short of the two-thirds majority needed to override, came on the $1,375,000,000 housing bill, which Ike had vetoed in his battle to keep the nation's budget in balance. The issue was forced by the Senate's Democratic liberals, desperately anxious to get out from under the President's firm fiscal thumb. In insisting...
Like a miler awaiting the starter's gun, Western Europe got set for Dwight Eisenhower's arrival-that is, the ministers and their swordbearers got set. As usual in August, the holidays had so depleted the supply of natives in Paris and Rome that tourists were reduced to staring at each other...