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...chain of events that led to the reversal began when Secretary of State John Foster Dulles received an urgent message from Mendes-France: Please come to Geneva for a clarifying talk about Franco-American differences. Dulles flatly refused. To come to Geneva only to "walk out" again after his conversations, he felt, would damage the already weakened French position and provide grist for the Red propagandists. But Mendes is a persistent man; he countered with a second invitation: Why not meet him in Paris? After 45 minutes of mulling it over with President Eisenhower. Dulles accepted, left that same evening...
...Resistance. The Gestapo marked him for torture and death, frequently came close to catching him. But it was Georges Bidault who gave the signal for Paris' rise against the occupiers in 1944, and who was there to greet General Charles de Gaulle on his triumphal return with the Franco-American Liberation forces...
Glamorous added attractions of Manhattan's annual "April in Paris" ball at the Waldorf (for Franco-American chari ties) were suntanned Mrs. John F. Kennedy, wife of Massachusetts' junior Senator, Radio-TV Chitchatter Sloan Simpson, estranged wife of ex-Ambassador to Mexico William O'Dwyer, and comely Actress Celeste (The King and 7) Holm. Amateur Mannequins Kennedy and Simpson modeled dazzling new Paris gowns, while Actress Holm warbled a song...
Fancy Prices for Latrines. Under terms of a formal Franco-American agreement signed last November, the U.S. got the right to establish the Merignac base and other air, ground, ordnance and supply bases in France as part of the new NATO supply line. The French got legal title to all buildings and installations and the right to farm out all construction and repair work to French contractors and laborers. The U.S. had to channel payments through French bureaucracy...
...everybody, Auriol looks and acts like the mayor of a thriving French town (which he was for 15 years) or like a man who would enjoy a musical evening with Harry Truman. (Auriol plays the violin.) On his only previous visit to Washington, as a member of the 1925 Franco-American War Debts Commission, Auriol shocked his superiors by running up and embracing the doorman at the French embassy, who turned out to be an old school chum. "If you please, Vincent, behave yourself," reproved the commission's president, stiff-backed Joseph Caillaux. "Hey, President," laughed Auriol, "what would...