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PRINCE EUGEN OF SAVOY, by Nicholas Henderson. A polished biography of the Paris-born Savoyard who, after Louis XIV felt he was too frail for military service, defected to become the Habsburgs' top general and Louis' greatest nemesis...
...frail and his manners effeminate. France's Louis XIV concluded that he would never make a soldier, forthwith ordered him to study for the priesthood. It was perhaps the most damaging decision the Sun King ever made. For young Eugen, a minor prince of the Alpine duchy of Savoy, was defiant and outraged. He disguised himself as a woman and fled to Vienna and the court of Leopold I, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, who happened to be a distant cousin. Prince Eugen solemnly swore that he would return to France only in another guise -with sword...
Should De Gaulle ever succeed in wedding his obese atomic bomb to his frail Diamant rocket (current orbital payload: 175 Ibs.), France will have obtained a nuclear-missile capability of sorts in the Western Hemisphere-a feat even Khrushchev presumably failed to achieve. France has magnanimously made clear that it plans to permit other nations to use its Guiana pad, including, by all means...
...They call her the Mother of the Nation," sniffed Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan. "Then she should at least behave like a mother." What upset Ayub was that Fatima Jinnah looked so good in pants. The more she upbraided Ayub, the louder Pakistanis cheered the frail figure in her shalwar (baggy white silk trousers). By last week, with Pakistan's first presidential election only a fortnight away, opposition to Ayub had reached a pitch unequaled in his six years of autocratic rule...
...Ultimate Goal. MLF is a frail vessel for carrying such a multitude of problems. In itself, MLF is not likely to solve the much larger problems between the Old and New Worlds. But if the U.S. as its stubborn champion had made it part of a truly comprehensive and inspiring plan for a future united European force, it would have meant more- and would have deflated De Gaulle's vague talk about "creating Europe." In a sense, both the U.S. and France are wrong in the current controversy, paradoxically not because their policies are so different but because they...