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...class Canning drew blood from Ken Williamson of Adams, while Fran Ingoldsby of Dunster and Ed Carey of Winthrop won their matches by decision...
...made out of pure and lofty motives." Gaullist Senator Edmond Michelet demanded that Foreign Minister Georges Bidault "call the attention of the Holy See to the regrettable consequences which our country's prestige might suffer throughout the world ... as a result of this assault on a world . . ." Novelist François Mauriac took two columns in Le Figaro to empty the vials of his wrath on the papal nuncio to France as one "who wields on French soil more power than that of any member of the government." Mauriac blamed the situation on the separation of church and state...
...Britain, who after three years are now, for a change, working together. Brit ain sent 16 hand-picked diplomats to Teheran; the mission showed none of the oldtime superciliousness, and impressed Zahedi. In London, the oil world's Big Eight-Anglo-Iranian, Royal Dutch Shell, Compagnie Française des Pétroles, New Jersey Standard, Socony, Texaco, Cali fornia Standard and Gulf-were secretly hammering out a tentative agreement to market Iran's oil through an international consortium. In Washington, the National Security Council directed the Attorney General to grant the five U.S. companies immunity from antitrust...
...nonentity; he is, in fact, a case study in the solid bourgeois qualities that many Frenchmen want in their President. He may, just possibly, do very well in the job. Born of solid Norman stock (he is no kin to the late Perfumer François Coty, who was really a Corsican named Spoturno), René Coty hung out his shingle as a lawyer in 1905, enlisted as a private in World War I and won a Croix de guerre, was first elected to the Parliament's lower house in 1923. Later, as a Senator, he had time...
...Prince François Ferdinand de Joinville, son of King Louis Philippe of France, was a man of many parts: admiral in the French navy, expert military tactician and accomplished artist. In 1861 De Joinville crossed the Atlantic and joined the staff of Major General George B. McClellan as observer and war artist. He spent almost a year with the Army of the Potomac, followed the Union forces from barracks to field, went with them through the Peninsular Campaign. These experiences produced a brief but scholarly military report, Campagne de I'Armée du Potomac, published...