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Conversations à deux. Pierre Mendès-France was a man traveling on momentum. He had no natural following in the Assembly, and had to exploit swiftly the prestige he won at Geneva. But even if he had not promised prompt action on Tunisia, some action would have been required by the situation. In the past month Tunisian terrorists have made 130 attacks on colons and pro-French compatriots, killing 93 victims, wounding...
...least 17 people lost their lives. It might have been much worse but for the prompt help of the U.S. Army's 4,000-man disaster team, which rescued 300 by helicopter, evacuated thousands of others in amphibian trucks and 150 assault boats. In Germany, G.I.s worked alongside 5,000 Bavarian policemen and 3,000 frontier guards for a week, fighting the floods. In Bonn, Konrad Adenauer and his Cabinet voted to thank the helpful Americans. Wired Adenauer: "The German population is filled with deep gratitude." At the U.S. Air Force base at Tulln, near Vienna, 40 airmen rode...
YOUR COVER JINX HAS ALWAYS BEEN EFFECTIVE BUT NEVER QUITE SO PROMPT AS IN THE CASE OF NATIVE DANCER. BY THE WAY, IN DANCER'S PEDIGREE YOU HAVE HIS PATERNAL GRAND DAM WRONG; THE DAM OF UNBREAKABLE IS IMPORTED BLUE GLASS, NOT BLUE
...Prompt Response. Adviser Burns was there to answer recent charges by Harvard's Economist Sumner Slichter that the Administration had done too little to combat recession. On the contrary, said Burns, it had done a great deal, notably in loosening credit and cutting taxes. The Federal Reserve Board's first credit-easing step, in May 1953, "was the promptest response to an economic decline ever taken by a central bank in any country...
...silence. He lives austerely, eats sparingly, conserves his strength and is considered to be in poor health. As French chief of staff. Ely visited Washington in March, where one unimpressed U.S. official nicknamed him "the poodle." Sent on a post-Dienbienphu tour of Indo-China, he recommended the prompt reinforcement of the Red River Delta and the replacement of General Henri Navarre. The French Cabinet asked Marshal Juin if he would take Navarre's job, but Juin did not want it. So the Cabinet asked Ely. He will be the eighth top commander in eight years in Indo-China...