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...monarch. He also helped to win his country's freedom from French colonial rule, led his army in a skirmish against invading Viet Minh Communists and encouraged his diplomats to stand up successfully to Molotov and Chou Enlai at last year's Geneva meeting. Yet he felt powerless really to run his land, to keep it clear of corruption and out of a head-in-sand neutrality. Cambodia, he decided, is a monarchy ruled by politicians; he would become a politician...
Concluded the decision: "The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless...
...arms like a ripe mango, walks out on him. By now, Rantz finds that he has outsmarted himself. In his loneliness he rediscovers that over-Donne island truth: no man is an Hand, intire of itselfe. In his new humility he goes to the other side, finds that the powerless, possessionless exiles are living life as it was before the fall. Everything belongs to everybody; greed, hate and fear are gone with the trade winds, and love is as free as coconuts. This is for Rantz. Joyously he explains his bag of tricks-which may or may not symbolize civilization...
...Astor, 26, very blonde Miami Beach divorcee who married Astor in August, ditched him in September, sued him last month for support money. Dolly, who had guilelessly fancied herself No. 3, was left, according to the court, still a lonely grass widow, never legally married to Astor and apparently powerless to take anything out of his heritage...
...Forgive Me." As more than a week passed without an arrest, press and politicians of the right wing cried for action and implied that Mendès-France and his ministers were powerless or afraid to act. If the Dides affaire was not to blossom into a full-scale threat to the regime's existence, Mitterrand and his police needed more-facts and arrests. One morning last week, the police rocked the country with two arrests. Jailed as the men who leaked from the Defense Committee were René Turpin, 42, and Roger Labrusse, 40, both ardent leftists...