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LIKE all French Finance Ministers, Félix Gaillard occupies quarters in the Palace of the Louvre, and en route to his private dining salon passes through the state apartment of Napoleon III with its massive chandeliers, velvet drapery and columns, caryatids and cherubs encrusted with gold leaf. "Ugly, isn't it?" remarked Gaillard cheerfully to a TIME reporter. "All the gold I own is on these walls." This week Félix Gaillard arrives in the U.S. See FOREIGN NEWS, France's Daring Young...
...Serious Blunder." Lebanon's Foreign Minister Charles Malik, the U.S.'s staunchest friend among Arab politicians, felt compelled to announce that Lebanon opposed the use of force against Syria. That much courted Arab potentate, King Saud, passing luxuriously through Beirut en route to the waters of Baden-Baden, felt the same way, and though the State Department, in beating a later retreat, indignantly denied that King Saud had personally advised the Eisenhower Administration to take it easy, the denial was only narrowly true...
...take anyone who wants to get out," promised Carmelo. And for eight years he did. A good thousand men and women-Yugoslavs or Italians caught on the wrong side by the map makers-owe him their freedom. To fugitives who protested fearfully when he picked up others en route, he replied, "As many as we are, we all go, or nobody goes." To those who tried to pay him (the standard border-running price is $160), Carmelo laughed and said softly, "You'll need it later. Come on, let's go." Once, in the troop-infested area around...
...Portuguese were enlisted in the effort, and Walter Schellenberg, head of the Gestapo's counter-espionage organization, was sent to Lisbon at the head of an 18-man task force to direct the operation. The mission got off to a fine start when the Windsors arrived in Portugal, en route to the Bahamas, and found the British embassy swarming with refugees seeking aid. The British ambassador, desperate for a place to bed them down, finally settled on a proffered villa in Estoril, only to find too late that it was the home of a pro-Nazi Portuguese banker...
...often the case, it was Yovicsin's wife who started worrying first, and with good reason. Her husband had informed her that he would be stopping on the way back from Harvard for a few day's golfing. En route to Cambridge, Yovicsin exerted the football coach's privilege of changing his mind and decided to switch his schedule around, golfing before going to Cambridge...