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...conventional, Meselson believes it will be due primarily to the United States. Conversely, control of this style of war must also be America's responsibility. It is the U.S. which is now using chemical weapons in Vietnam, and it is the U.S. which refused to ratify the 1925 Geneva Protocol which deplores the use or even development of such weapons. The Protocol was written by the U.S., signed by the U.S., but not ratified by the Senate. America has nonetheless always had a "cautious respect" for the treaty, according to Meselson...
Arab monarchy still involves subtleties and power plays difficult to find elsewhere. In Morocco, since protocol requires that ministers kiss the King's right hand, and royal etiquette says that the King should draw his hand away before contact is made, the speed at which the King pulls away is an indication of the importance a man carries at court. (The method is, at any rate, simpler than many signals of favor and disfavor given at Communist courts or even in democratic presidential mansions.) Last year Morocco's King Hassan dissolved Parliament and has been running the country...
...They" were the Russians, and all the fuss was about the nine-day state visit of Russian Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin. To reciprocate the warmth of his reception in Moscow last June, De Gaulle seemingly left nothing undone for Kosygin's return visit. Although protocol did not demand it, he himself went to Orly Airport to greet Kosygin, later received him at the presidential palace through the gold-tipped Grille du Coq, usually reserved for presidents and kings. "Vous étes le trés bienvenu," said De Gaulle, making use of a courtly French superlative to show Kosygin...
...evolution of events in Europe has shown the benefits of a Franco-Soviet rapprochement." But Kosygin embarrassed his hosts when, at a purely ceremonial luncheon, he impulsively attacked what he called the resurgence of "the forces of fascism and war" in West Germany. This not only violated all protocol; it also hardly pleased De Gaulle, who is anxious to encourage the new German government in its desire for closer relations with France...
Nowhere were the protocol problems thornier than in Thailand, but U.S. diplomats succeeded in persuading the Thais to relax a few of the rules. At Borombinam Mansion, a yellow stucco building where the Johnsons were put up inside the mile-square Grand Palace compound built by the founders of Thailand's Chakri dynasty two centuries ago, the U.S. was allowed to erect a giant antenna for the President's worldwide communications; normally, the Thais are reluctant to permit structures to soar higher than their ubiquitous Buddhist temples. When Johnson choppered into the Royal Plaza near Chitra-lada Palace...