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...West German government, however, did not give in to discouragement. "We are going to have more of this, and soon Berliners will feel like citizens again," said a spokesman. Workmen at the Technological Institute carefully stored away the Bundestag president's desk and the speaker's rostrum for future...
Tomorrow's Consequence. Trembling with anger, dapper Antoine Pinay climbed back to the Assembly rostrum. "Twice I have warned the Assembly of the consequences of a violation of the Charter. An assault of passion and demagogy has led the Assembly to disregard the recommendations of its General Committee . . . My government refuses to accept any intervention of the U.N. . . . My government will consider as null and void any recommendation which the Assembly might make in this connection...
When he walked to the rostrum, in well-tailored, single-breasted navy blue, he could have been mistaken for a shrewd bank president or a shy professor...
...Duval's funeral, muffled drums played the Death March. Officers bore his decorations on three cushions, and behind them walked Gilbert Grandval. The Resident General's face was blue with fatigue. Climbing to the rostrum, Grandval addressed himself to Duval's widow, sitting near by. "Madame . . ." he began, but a storm of voices from the 4,000 assembled colons drowned him: "Assassin!" "Dirty Jew!" "Get out!" Madame Duval got up to leave. A chaplain next to her pulled her back down. "If you go, blood will be spilled." Grandval finished his speech, but as he drove away...
...already beginning to drowse under the somniferous spell of Marxist platitudes when the chairman of the meeting suddenly barked: "We have an important announcement to make . . ." Before he could finish it, three men in light grey summer suits, Panama hats in hand, walked briskly down the aisle toward the rostrum. The crowd recognized Sanzo Nozaka, who is Japan's No. 1 Communist since the death of Kyuichi Tokuda (TIME, Aug. 8), and two of his henchmen. Looking like a dapper but tired businessman, Nozaka approached the microphone, told the audience that after five years underground he had come back...