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Followed by counterespionage agents, his telephone tapped while he was heading the American desk at the Foreign Office, Maclean was allegedly driven to desperation, while the hell-raising Burgess was depicted as a man racked with "the greatest anxiety . . . caused by the fact that at first no modus vivendi was reached be tween the East and West, and later on no attempts were made to reach...
...best Dragnet fashion. Detectives Charles Fitzgerald and Herbert Wilk got her picture identified, discovered her modus operandi, and put a stakeout on her neighborhood. Maggie, meanwhile, decided to lie low, after a $500 score in an A. & P. market last August. She went to Miami for a while, then to Las Vegas, finally settled down as a waitress in Galveston's redlight district. She got a little nervous there, mostly because she had to serve a lot of big Texas cops. Once she even went out on a date with a cop: "I wasn't much...
...matter how much they reassure the United States public and ease the immediate crisis--can cover up basic contradictions in U.S. Far Eastern policy. For the United States is at once attempting to support Chiang Kai-shek militarily, to keep the Western alliance together, and to negotiate a "modus vivendi"--to use the President phrase--with Communist China...
...Under the pretext of Atlantic solidarity, they are asking France to take precautions against the Soviet danger before taking precautions against the German danger," cried rightist General Adolphe Aumeran. "Without our agreement Amer ica will not dare rearm Germany." Insisted Gaullist Jacques Soustelle: "Every effort to get a modus vivendi with the East must be sought first. Logic dictates it . . . an alliance with Russia is a geopolitical must for France." Complained old Paul Reynaud, the man who was Premier in 1940 when France fell: "The Paris accords give the political hegemony to England and the military hegemony to Germany." Doddering...
...rearmament would be difficult to put into effect. "Not that the men in office lack patriotism and personal capability," he said; "the ardor, the worth and vigor of the present Premier are there as proof." De Gaulle insisted that before finally rearming Germany, France should lead negotiations for "a modus vivendi" with Russia. The week's dramas had demonstrated one thing: as of now the French Assembly wants Mendès to be the man who shoulders the responsibility for German rearmament. Whether it will go along with his social and economic ideas early next year will be another...