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Italy and Spain argued for relief from restraints on tourism, which Katzenbach said might take the form of a head tax, increased passport fees or a tax based on the number of days spent abroad. While France demanded that the U.S. hold formal talks with its trading partners before imposing restrictive measures. Finance Minister Michel Debré hinted at reprisals if U.S. companies are forced to repatriate their profits rather than reinvest them in France...
...impressions. They are not without humor, as in the episode involving Lord Davies, a Welsh magnate who was Macmillan's companion on a mission to Finland. Macmillan's diary records the event thus: "Lord Davies has left his teeth in the train. "Lord Davies has lost his passport...
...Later, Lord Davies' passport has turned up, but not his teeth. A search of an intense kind has been made. As the Malmö train connects with the Berlin train, it is thought that the teeth have been stolen by a Gestapo agent. Later still. Lord Davies' teeth have been found." All, however, was not low jinks in high diplomacy. Churchill drew Macmillan closer to him, and the fact that both men had American mothers made it seem right that Macmillan would work better than most others in the vital area of Anglo-American cooperation. In this field...
...opposed any legal action in the belief that the Government's case might make Carmichael a martyr and would probably not hold up in court. Thus, when-and if-Carmichael finally does return to Hell, U.S.A., the most that he is likely to suffer is confiscation of his passport. Reason: as a U.S. citizen he broke the State Department's rule against trips to Cuba and North Viet...
...Russian cannot walk, sit clown or breathe without seeing a slogan, a flag, a statistic, a portrait of Lenin, a piece of heroic Soviet statuary. He is rarely allowed to tour outside the Soviet Union by himself, even in other socialist countries, and he must show an internal passport when he travels within his own country. A Russian spends much of his free time standing in queues, where he must push and heave to defend his place. Partly because of boredom, alcoholism is widespread; every park in Moscow has its nightly yield of inert bodies that are dragged...