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...brick capital, the forces of the revolution last week passed in review. Tribesmen galloped through the streets, wearing brass-trimmed bandoleers, with curved, wide-bladed djambias thrust into their brocaded belts. They were followed by camel troops, native levies in skirts and armed with muskets dating back to Napoleon, and new army recruits in crumpled khaki uniforms. From the second-floor window of his headquarters, the architect of the revolution, Brigadier General Abdullah Sallal, cried: "The corrupt monarchy which ruled for a thousand years was a disgrace to the Arab nation and to all humanity. Anyone who tries to restore...
Short Shrift. Soon after De Gaulle went off the air, Parliament assembled in an angry mood. In speech after speech, Deputies warned against the risk of dictatorship, reminding France that direct presidential elections in 1848 resulted in the seizure of power by Bonaparte's nephew, Louis Napoleon. A motion of censure was passed, charging De Gaulle with "violating the constitution of which he is the guardian, and thus opening a breach through which an adventurer might some day pass to overthrow the Republic and suppress liberty...
...Without mentioning what was then the most closely guarded of Gaullist secrets: the fact that his maternal great-great-grandfather was born in Germany. De Gaulle's Teutonic ancestor was Ludwig Phillip Kolb, a barber-surgeon in Napoleon's army, who was born in Grotzingen in 1761 and fell to British bullets at Waterloo...
Died. Marie, Princess Bonaparte, 80, wealthy widow of Greece's Prince George and great-granddaughter of Napoleon's eldest brother Lucien, who shook off her royal trappings and reputation as "the greatest heiress in France" to become a lay psychoanalyst (she wrote a book analyzing Edgar Allan Poe) and translator of her close friend, Dr. Sigmund Freud; in St.-Tropez, France...
...last week capped his historic, hugely successful state visit to West Germany with a momentous confession. Speaking for once as a citizen rather than as the voice of France, Charles de Gaulle revealed that he himself, through "the grandfather of my maternal grandfather," a barber-surgeon who served in Napoleon's army, has been one-sixteenth German all these years...