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Free Men or Slaves? The Atlantic Council also: 1) set up a North Atlantic planning board for ocean shipping, to coordinate the West's merchant shipping in case of emergency; 2) provided for the informal inclusion of the U.S. and Canada in OEEC (the European Marshall Plan organization) so that plans can be made for some sort of U.S. help after 1952, when the Marshall Plan ends; 3) assured Greece, Turkey and Iran that, although they are not members of the North Atlantic Treaty, the U.S. and its Allies retained a "deep interest" in their security...
...formally took over the Dragon Throne at Hué; two years later he married beautiful Mariette-Jeanne Nguyen Huu Thi Lan, the daughter of a wealthy Cochin-Chinese merchant. The Empress Nam Phuong was a Roman Catholic, educated at Paris' Convent "Aux Oiseaux...
...only necessary to be "correct in every particular," Baltimore's Gentleman-Merchant Alexander Brown advised his sons early in the 19th Century, "but also to have the appearance of correctness." From the day he arrived in Baltimore from Ballymena, Ireland in 1800, spectacled, respectable Alexander Brown followed his own advice. He set up an Irish linen business, gradually built a fleet of eleven sailing ships, became a merchant banker. By the time he died in 1834, Alexander Brown had much more than an appearance of correctness: he had $2,000,000 as well...
...Sake Merchant Tomioka returned from fire fighting to find his own house burned down, his eight children homeless. Next day he started work on a new house. "By nightfall we'll have it up," he said. "I have no money left, but we can get supplies on credit and by tonight I'll be filling orders again for the inns...
...last week Merchant Nguyen and his family were gathered around the television set in the master's bedroom at Le Perreux waiting for the 9 o'clock news to come on. The doorbell rang. Pretty Ly ran down to answer it. The caller was Student Vo. Ly invited him upstairs to join the family circle. As the show began, the visitor leaped from his chair, whipped out a pistol and screamed at Nguyen: "You are a traitor to your country. You have been supplying the French with rice. You have been condemned by a tribunal of the people...