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Pleas in Private. But for most of his stay in Paris, the President was immersed in the problems of the present. He had already conferred privately with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. France's Felix Gaillard had called to tell the President that practically every Frenchman is convinced that the U.S. has covert designs on North Africa, particularly on the Sahara's oil. Shocked, Ike told Gaillard emphatically that the U.S. had no intention of supplanting French interests in North Africa, or of interfering in the war in Algeria...
...London near week's end, Britain's House of Commons passed judgment on the Paris conference. Twice during the day's debate, shouts of "Treason!" were hurled at Prime Minister Harold Macmillan from the Visitors' Gallery. Snapped Aneurin Bevan, Labor's left-leaning spokesman on foreign affairs: "We are profoundly depressed when representative after representative of the British government . . . has no advice to give to the nation except to build up one more tier of ridiculous armaments on the useless pile we have created." The government won the vote, 289 to 251. But its majority...
During the supposedly secret conference, Charlie Halleck and Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart bellowed their defiance across the table at Indiana's Republican State Chairman Robert Matthews and Governor Harold W. Handley, who is hungrily eying the U.S. Senate seat that William E. Jenner will put up for grabs next year. Roared Senator Capehart: "We're split right down the middle. All you do is beat the brains out of the Eisenhower Administration. All you do is assure the election of a Democratic President in 1960." To State Chairman Matthews, who all but read Eisenhower Republican Halleck...
Behind his Harold Lloyd glasses, Willson still looks much like the round-eyed boy wonder who packed up his flute at twelve and left Mason City for New York and a career as a versatile but erratic musician. At 19 he was good enough to play with John Philip Sousa, at 22 was playing under Toscanini with the New York Philharmonic. In 1929 he defected to radio, for the next two decades whipped up foamy musical souffles and sprightly chatter for such shows as Maxwell House Coffee Time, The Big Show. Along the way, he tried his hand at anything...
Lady Emily (Emy to her family) was a bright-eyed matron married to a distinguished architect (designer of New Delhi, London's Cenotaph and Liverpool Cathedral). She belonged to a famed English family: grandfather was Statesman-Novelist Bulwer-Lytton (Harold, Last of the Saxon Kings, Rienzi, The Last Days of Pompeii), and her father, first Earl of Lytton, was Viceroy of India (1876-80). There came a day in 1910 when Emy, then 36, no longer knew what to do with herself. Every male reader with an underemployed female relative will feel his heart sink at the news that...