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...memories of the Boche, Parisians showed only muted enthusiasm for the visitor, but at a state dinner at the Elysée Palace, De Gaulle offered an emotional toast and a special history lesson: "However badly founded were the immediate motives of our wars, however inopportune their execution, however ruinous their results, it was a great cause which was fundamentally at the source of our quarrels. In seeking to impose their domination, Germany and France were in truth pursuing the old dream of unity which for some 20 centuries haunted the souls of our continent...
...wild marshes of the coast of north Wales. His ancestral house, Newton Llantony, is servantless, its furniture shrouded in dust cloths. He ignores his feudal standing in the village, which is peopled by eccentrics, beldames, drunks and brawlers. "These relics of feudalism," he muses, "such relationships . . . were equally ruinous to the servant and the served." Augustine is enlightened; he belongs to an age that Freud, Marx and Einstein have liberated from God and other superstitions...
Women in Camp. The guests at the day-long outing were 38 freshmen Republican Congressmen. Gettysburg was hot, but their host was in cool good humor. Attempting to point out the wheatfields across which Pickett's divi sion made its ruinous charge, Ike discovered the view blocked by a parked bus. When he asked that the bus be moved, one Congressman quipped, "Is that an executive order, Mr. President?" Chortled Ike, when the bus driver was slow in moving: "And obeyed just about as rapidly." Climbing aboard one of the congressional buses, Ike handled a microphone like a veteran...
...tentative response to the latest and most worrisome of Soviet bullyboy operations. If Khrushchev persists in his determination to drag West Berlin behind the Iron Curtain, the ultimate answer, the U.S. has already hinted, could be nuclear war. Yet for the peace-minded free world, war would be a ruinous solution to a problem that could have been so easily resolved in September...
...pension, the Commons approved a 46-word bill firing Coyne. From the sidelines. Banker Coyne accused Diefenbaker of being an "evil genius" who, with "unbridled malice and vindictiveness." had set out to destroy him in order to install a yes man at the bank and proceed on a ruinous program of big spending...