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...Swim. For some the answer is De Gaulle. The morning after Pleven's failure to form a government, Paris is plastered with posters declaring: "Call De Gaulle and France will be France!" Newspapers proclaim that a Colonel Barberot has convoked a meeting of the "Companions of the Liberation" because "13 years have sufficed to show that all we fought for has been lost," and that "in the service of our country we must use the capital represented by General de Gaulle...
...independence. Recognizing Istiqlal strength, Mohammed filled his Cabinet with Istiqlal men but chose as first Premier pro-Western Si M'Barek ben Mustapha el Bekkai, a man without a party. Fortnight ago, at 4:30 one morning, the King had to summon Si Bekkai to his palace and proclaim his government dissolved...
...adviser, the Rev. Michael Phipps, chaplain of Cambridge's Trinity College and religious adviser to commercial TV. "Religion," he said, "must go back to the marketplace, and that means, in 20th century terms, the TV set. Christ spent most of his life in the marketplace. You must proclaim where your voice can be heard...
...conference with a tedious speech declaring his readiness to "go to bat" for some project. On his third repetition of this phrase, Fry banged down his gavel and intoned: "Three strikes-you're out!" Other sheep become altogether too sheeplike-as did one bemused delegate who rose to proclaim: "I move what President Fry thinks...
...Padang, at the foot of Sumatra's towering Barisan Mountains, 40,000 troops and civilians gathered on a balmy tropical night last week to hear Lieut. Colonel Ahmad Husein proclaim a "revolutionary government with full sovereignty over all Indonesia." Designated Premier of the new state was Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, ex-Governor of the Bank of Indonesia and a bitter personal enemy of President Sukarno. Cried Sjafruddin: "It is with deep sorrow and sadness that we are compelled to raise the banner of challenge against our own head of state. We have talked and talked. Now we must...