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Down to a poor fourth place went Fuller Warren, former governor (1949-53), who had proclaimed: "If race-mixing comes to Florida, there will result from it a mulatto race." Up to a poor second went White Supremacist Sumter Lowry, retired National Guardsman and popeyed patriot, who highlighted his first campaign by displaying a blown-up picture of his eight-year-old daughter: "Now what kind of a man would I be if I didn't fight for a little girl like that...
...Germanys. As the Russian began to speak, John Foster Dulles made notes, France's Pinay chain-smoked, Britain's Macmillan sat erect as a Grenadier Guardsman (which he once was). Harshly Molotov plunged in. He rejected out of hand the West's plan for German unity. He accused the Western powers-including, of all people, the French-of seeking "a revival of German militarism." What the West wants, he said, is to re-establish throughout Germany "the rule of big monopolies, Junker and militarists" and to "liquidate the social gains of the [East German Communist Republic...
...Kabaka's subjects swore never to shave until he returned. Even when the British offered concessions, the Lukiko refused to accept them in the Kabaka's absence. King Freddie, ensconced in a West End apartment at Britain's expense, behaved as a young ex-guardsman should...
...Adventurer Mike Hedges: "Goddamit, I never saw a youngster with such a brass neck." Moving on to Mexico, Mike Hedges fell afoul of Guerrilla Leader Pancho Villa, and-as he tells it-narrowly escaped execution as an American spy. To prove his English nationality, he flashed Villa an orthodox Guardsman's salute and sang God Save the King-whereupon Villa delightedly conscripted Mike for ten months' service as a guerrilla leader. But Mike was soon heading south again for gleaming Panama Bay and the 20-ton yacht Cara. He spent years prowling the jungles and deep-sea fishing...
...spectacled and mustached French army captain stood stiffly at attention on the parade ground of the Ecole Militaire. As a huge crowd looked on, a guardsman came forward and ripped the epaulets from his shoulders, yanked away the red stripes of the general staff from his trousers, took the officer's sword and broke it across his knee. The crowd roared its approval. In a small yard of the same school 11 ½ years later, the same officer stood before a brigadier general who intoned: "I make you a Knight of the Legion of Honor." Then the general pinned...