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...motor, train and plane (including a special once-a-day turbojet transport which made it from London in 90 minutes), the first wave of a record crowd of 150,000 poured into Edinburgh. American collegians in crew cuts and seersuckers, arty Frenchmen wearing beards and corduroys, sturdy Scandinavians in hiking boots and shorts, grey-haired elders with guidebooks in hand thronged broad, flag-lined Princes and George Streets, puffed up Castle Hill, or jammed into pubs where Scotch was plentiful at 63? a double shot...
There are other things, little things, that count. Some Frenchmen continue to address adult Vietnamese in the familiar "tu"-a pronoun which in French is reserved for children, intimates and riffraff. This habit could be uprooted with slight effort...
...French themselves faced risks in proposing the Schuman Plan. Many Frenchmen (including the owners of the French steel industry) feared that, under the Schuman Plan, Germany would outproduce and outsell France, and thus regain a huge military advantage. France, overcoming her traditional fears, had in effect told the West that, in order to win, it was necessary to take a chance...
...March 8, 1949 with Bao Dai, they promised limited freedom for Viet Nam within the French Union. Under its terms, a Viet Nam cabinet has charge of internal affairs, the right to a national army. Paris keeps direct control of foreign policy, maintains military bases and special courts for Frenchmen, retains a special place for French advisers and the French language...
Explosion in Yugoslavia. Antonin Besse had laid down only one stipulation. He wanted both Frenchmen and Englishmen to be admitted, to study in an atmosphere of Anglo-French cooperation. To create that atmosphere, Oxford picked as St. Antony's first warden just the sort of independent-minded, well-educated Englishman Besse had learned to admire during the years he had traded and traveled all over the world. Slim, trim Frederick William Dampier Deakin...