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Last week 3,000 people gathered in a flotilla of small boats in the bay of San Fruttuoso. After Mass, the giant statue, its 900-lb. bulk suspended from a naval crane, was lowered into the sea. Slowly the water mounted, inch by inch, until at last it swirled over the suppliant hands. Said a message from Genoa's Giuseppe Cardinal Siri: "Where men, the pioneers of new roads, are beginning to descend, our Lord and Redeemer descends today...
...recommend them than the old-fashioned diplomacy-which consisted of particular arrangements for precise ends. It is State Department doctrine to talk of SEATO as an assemblage of like-minded nations, which will be broadened (it is always hoped) to include other nations later on. But a grand flotilla of allies must travel at the speed of the slowest ship in the convoy. The old-fashioned solution would be to make hard-and-fast arrangements-separately or in small groupings-with Syngman Rhee, with Chiang Kaishek, with Ramon Magsaysay, with Mohammed...
...coast of England from Cornwall to Kent the night and day before, other eager millions had clustered, to follow the course of Her Majesty's yacht Britannia. As it steamed slowly toward the Pool of London, it was escorted by warships of the Royal Navy and the greatest flotilla of private craft since Britain's yachtsmen set forth in a body to rescue the British forces on the beach at Dunkirk. Some fresh from their beds in pajamas and trenchcoats, others stiff with long waiting, the observers on shore pinched each other at the sight of any moving...
Angered by Spain's behavior and afraid that it might stir up more trouble in Morocco, the French sent an aircraft carrier, two cruisers and a flotilla of destroyers into the vicinity, protested to Spain, and asked the U.S. to please ask Franco to call off his Moroccans. The U.S., with millions invested in French Moroccan air-bases and ready to spend $200 million more on bases in Spain, kept aloof...
Three days bread & water for your Pentagon correspondent ... for calling the "Air Force Navy" a flotilla of admirals' gigs [TIME, Aug. 24]. Any boot knows that: The captain rides in a gig The admiral rides in a barge It doesn't go a damn bit faster, but it makes the old bastard feel large...