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...latest has the birthmarks of another big bestseller. As Stone's Lincoln steps onstage, he is a feckless, unkempt rube who wolfs his food and says, "Ain't that a caution!" Mary Todd, on the other hand, is "quality folks," with a vocabulary of Basic French (au revoir, soupcon, carte blanche). In Stone's version, it is not Lincoln who lifts himself to eminence by his bootstraps, but Mary who raises him with her apron strings. This may make Love Is Eternal the ideal woman's home companion, but scarcely good history. In the main, Author...
...Senegalese professional grinned, and capered into a happy jig: "Au revoir chérie, la guerre est finie!" A French paratrooper sipped his Pernod: "In France they are happy tonight. I too am glad that no more will be killed-but there is nothing for us here to be proud of." And in Hanoi's sandbagged Citadelle, where once he had wept at the fall of Dienbienphu, General Cogny put his career on the line. "The free world has not lived up to its responsibilities," said Cogny. "There have been too many deaths for too few results, too many...
...army for their humanitarian concern." And the Communists seemed just as friendly next day when they helped load the first eleven wounded into a couple of French helicopters: "We hope you will remember what we have done for you. We hope this war will end very soon. Now au revoir." But the eleven wounded men of Dienbienphu"were rath er hostile" to the Communist speechmakers, said one who was there, and the helicopters quickly took...
...enemy has infiltrated right through our central bastion. Munitions are short. Our resistance is about to be submerged. The Vietminh are only a few yards from the radio where I speak. I have given orders for maximum demolitions. The ammo depots are going up already. Au revoir...
...Dienbienphu radio operator added his piece with no show of emotion: "There is fighting around the door. The general has ordered me to destroy this equipment. Say hello to Paris for me. Au revoir." Then silence. At GHQ, staff officers, generals, signalmen and clerks were leaden with a dread despair. "It was like hearing the tap on the hull of a submarine that lies helpless at the bottom of the sea," said one who listened...