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Most maddening of all the modalities has been the problem of precedence. It took nearly six months to sign the Peace of Ryswick in 1697, for example, because the representatives of France and the Holy Roman Empire never could agree about who should walk into the conference room first; they finally agreed to enter together, and so ended what was known as the War of the Grand Al liance. In 1801, Thomas Jefferson adopted the rule of "pellmell" for diplomatic meetings-whoever arrived first, entered first. That solution has long since been dropped by protocol-conscious officials. Numerous efforts have...
...phalanxes of foreign officers fretted over who should enter first. They finally found a room with three doors so that Churchill, Stalin and Truman could come in simulta neously. Another near impasse was averted at the conference's end when Stalin insisted that he be the first to sign, since the British Prime Minister and the U.S. President had each been first in two previous conferences. Harry Truman refused to make a fuss about it. "You can sign any time you want to," he snorted. "I don't care...
...Israeli victory last year that, as one fedayeen commander puts it, "handed us the Arab people on a golden platter." Students quit their classes to sign up as terrorists. Doctors abandoned their practices in Beirut and Cairo to come to Jordan to attend wounded fedayeen. Arab businessmen offered supplies and purchased weapons, and the Saudi and Kuwait governments began diverting to fedayeen coffers funds usually contributed to Jordan's budget. Individual contributions by the thousands poured in from Arabs throughout the Middle East and those abroad; the wife of Saudi Arabia's King Feisal sent...
...major failing of the conference. Before he spoke a few lonely pickets outside the Princeton Theological Seminary (where the closing session was held) made the same point. "These tired old conferees are being used to give the illusion that 'intellectuals' are participating in America's absurdity," their sign read and then listed I.F. Stone, Dwight MacDonald, Norman Mailer, Noam Chomsky, Mary McCarthy, and Andrew Kopkind as likely intellectuals who might have been invited. Brown added Tom Hayden to the list...
...black students greeted the announcement with enthusiasm. "We have gotten what we came for today. It's a hopeful sign," Diorita C. Fletcher '71, spokesman for the black students, said...