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...literary allusion that no Frenchman applied to the bluff of a weak France trying to carry out a strong-arm foreign policy was a line from Edmond Rostand's Chantecler: "Quand le paon n'est pas là, le dindon fait la roue-When the peacock is away, the turkey spreads his tail...
...Triestinos think of themselves as Italian, but the Slav tide-Slovenes to the north, Croats to the east-washes into the city's suburbs. To the northeast lies D'Annunzio's Fiume. Italy after the last war presented the peacemakers with a fait accompli by seizing Fiume. Tito last week followed D'Annunzio's gaudy example and bid for permanent possession of Trieste and all Istria, which would greatly enhance the Mediterranean position of the states grouped around Russia. Britain reacted as she must wherever her Mediterranean control is threatened. The U.S. Government, acknowledging...
...fait accompli in Vienna was timed with the arrival of U.S. troops at the Austrian frontier. It extended Russian influence to the Swiss borders. But Washington and London promptly let Mosow know that they had no intention of recognizing the new Austrian regime...
...doesn't like to admit it in front of the Tsarevich," she added in a stage whisper, "but His Imperial Majesty is simply fascinated by Stalin-mais tout a fait epris...
...this purpose, the spry little 142-pound admiral had hundreds of aircraft flying from the big, fait carriers of Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet. He peered through red-rimmed eyes as the air groups were flown off and formed up at dawn, hundreds of miles east of their targets. His chief of staff, Rear Admiral Wilder Du Puy Baker, is a grandfather, but McCain addressed him as "Son." He addressed everybody on the flag bridge as "Son." One of them was Commander John S. ("Jimmy") Thach, inventor of the Navy fighter plane technique for Jap-killing, known...