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...Between protocol and gastronomy, Sosa Molina got down to the business which brought him to the U.S.: military materiel for Argentina. His list included almost everything in the weapons catalogue, with a total value of about half a billion dollars. Army officials explained to him that U.S. munitions factories, unlike those in Argentina, are free to make private contracts with foreign customers (although the U.S. Government has to grant export licenses), that if Argentina had the money, it could buy arms wherever it could find them. The Army itself could do nothing for him until Congress passes the long pigeonholed...
Next day Ike put on a double-breasted grey flannel suit and strode around the corner to the Faculty Club to meet the press. First, there was a question of protocol. No, don't call him president, he said; he wouldn't actually take over as president of Columbia until June 7. Congress had made him a general for life, Ike added, but just call him mister. ("Nobody has so far. Maybe it doesn...
...important milestone of postwar history, but the proceedings were cut & dried, the speeches were dull, and most of the delegates looked as though they were thinking about lunch. M. Jacques Dumaine, the French government's elegant chief of protocol, stole the show. Bowing from the hips, gracefully waving his hands and toying with a monocle (made of plain glass), he ran off the signing in 25 minutes...
...March passed without a Ruhr general strike. Last week the New York Times's persistent Chief European Correspondent Cyrus L. Sulzberger reported, from a "completely reliable source," that Protocol M was a forgery. The British government, which in January had stoutly asserted "[we] believe this document to be genuine," responded to Sulzberger's report with a limp and embarrassed "no comment...
Twenty years ago such a bloomer would have raised a Grade A scandal. But today, in the era of the Big Lie, the collapse of Protocol M was rather like the bursting of a bubble-gum balloon. One reason was that, even if Protocol M was itself a forgery, its contents squared with probable Communist aims and tactics. But Sulzberger put his finger on another, bigger reason: "This incident is characteristic of one phase of the present-day nervousness and suspicion in Europe. A network of forgers and falsifiers-some clever and some not-are busily peddling allegedly secret documents...