Word: says
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tolerant individual, I can honestly say your magazine is top-heavy with Catholic news. Why did you not just plant the old boy and forget the whole thing...
...show me as a kind of would-be dictator, as a man who tries, against General de Gaulle himself, to acquire enormous powers by a one-party system. This sort of smearing campaign has been waged against me for months by Communist or extreme-leftist papers here; I must say 1 am surprised to see it resumed by a magazine with usually high professional standards...
...whole article is based either on affirmations or innuendoes to the effect that I have been, so to say, conspiring against General de Gaulle and that he scored a triumph in a battle against me. The first point I consider a gross insult, as I have been on General de Gaulle's side for 18 years, as I still am; the second one is simply ludicrous. It is ridiculous to talk of my "blasted dreams" and even more to say that France experimented with the birth of hope because I, the number one enemy, was "under control...
...paragraph "Furious at his setbacks," etc. ... is a tissue of distorted facts and even, I am sorry to say, of downright lies. I was not furious at any setbacks; I was invited by General de Gaulle to have a cup of coffee with him, and we quietly and confidently discussed the political situation. Neither did I "demand" bluntly or otherwise permission to form a right-wing coalition, nor did the general have to "icily refuse." All this interview, as narrated by TIME, is to what really happened what a fairy tale is to reality...
...stuffer rules of the Club game. Abortive movements have recently been started in some Clubs to admit ladies more frequently, and a few members feel that the Clubs would enjoy a friendlier place in the College if classmates could be brought in for meals. At least, they say, older guests should be invited more often. But these movements generally run into polite but firm opposition from the graduates, who remember a day when the Clubs were close-knit little bands of intimate friends, which might be broken up by frequent intrusions of outsiders, no matter how attractive and pleasant...