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More Like Metternich. From there the talk turned to nuclear tests and inspection and Lippmann caught an odd twist in the Red line: the U.S.S.R., Khrushchev insisted, has never conducted underground nuclear tests and never will. "We do not see any value in small, tactical atomic weapons. If it comes to war, we shall use only the biggest weapons." Khrushchev doubted-as he has doubted all along-that Russia can come to terms with the U.S. on nuclear inspection, citing, among other reasons, his objection to a "neutral" (i.e., nonCommunist) administrator I here are no neutral men," said Khrushchev...
...Khrushchev thinks more like Richelieu and Metternich than like Woodrow Wilson," Walter Lippmann writes after his Moscow visit. Certainly the Russian Premier is handling the current Russian-British exchanges on Laos with coolness and detached calculation. Indeed, the deliberation with which both sides in the neotiations are unravelling each knot in the Laotian crisis almost justifies the British government's faith that a settlement is immanent. The importance of a cease-fire, the return of the international commission to Laos, and a 14-power conference to settle the future of that faction-torn land--all are, in vaguest outline, agreed...
...nation so young and still so weak, such a stand was courageous and decidedly overambitious. "These United States of America," snorted Austria's Prince Metternich, "have astonished Europe by a new act of revolt, more unprovoked, fully as audacious and no less dangerous than the former"-meaning the American Revolution. But Lafayette called it "the best little bit of paper that God had ever permitted any man to give to the world." Intervention License. Teddy Roosevelt amended the Monroe Doctrine to mean that continued disturbance in a Latin American country could force the U.S. to intervene to forestall intervention...
...Pascal--the Hungarian producer who procured the screen rights to all of Bernard Shaw's plays--said to Behrman, "Sahm, you know I ahm illegitimate descendant Talleyrand." Two weeks later, Behrman met Pascal again and the producer said, "Sahm, did I tell you I ahm illegitimate descendant Metternich?" Recounting these incidents in an unpublished New Yorker profile of Pascal, Behrman wrote, "Whatever differences may have separated the Congress of Vienna, it was united on at least one thing: to have some share, however remote, in Pascal's paternity." Pascal's coment on reading the profile was: "There is thin line...
...Napoleon known to history emerged with incredible rapidity. The small figure in his green chasseur's uniform and white waistcoat and breeches became a kind of miniature god of war who presided over incredible carnage without blinking. After the defeat at Moscow. Napoleon told Austria's Metternich: "The French can't complain of me. To spare them. I've sacrificed Germans and Poles. I lost 300,000 men, but only 30,000 were French." Retorted Metternich sharply: "You forget, Sire, that you are speaking to a German...