Word: splendids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ears & Guts. At 11:30 that night, 22 ministers somberly gathered at the Elysee. They were just in time to hear a full report on a cavalry officers' banquet held that same evening in the Bois de Boulogne. There, in splendid regalia, Marshal Alphonse Juin had made another speech -even more mocking than before. He did not take back a word about EDC. Marshal Juin, a graduate of St. Cyr (where he was a classmate of Charles de Gaulle), was utterly opposed to handing over the army of Napoleon and Foch to the dubious control of a hybrid international...
...peppery disciplinarian with a splendid combat record (five times cited in dis patches, twice wounded, three times deco rated in the field), he is the only French man to hold one of the four top Euro pean commands in NATO. Tough and wiry, a born soldier and a patriot, he has a flair for fast horses, smart uniforms, brandy, and resounding candor. It was his candor and his refusal to curb it that proved Marshal Juin's undoing...
...SPLENDID CENTURY (306 pp.)-W. H. Lewis-Sloane...
...himself how close he had come to the Original. Little Louis liked the game so much that as King Louis XIV of France (which he became at the age of four), he played it for keeps. He had been named Dieudonne-God-given-and believed it. In The Splendid Century, British Author W. H. Lewis shows that despite the King's intimate relationship with the Almighty, he was all too human, and that for all its splendor, Louis le Grand's grand siecle was not as splendid as it seemed. Author Lewis is an urbane scholar who knows...
...keeping a TIME editor out of jail. The man was Senior Editor John Osborne, who was passing through London returning from the Far East. Says Osborne: "Unthinkingly and stupidly, I left London Airport for the Savoy without permission or visa, and the immigration and customs officials were in a splendid rage when Allen brought me back. His good offices and honest English face did more than my arguments to allay the quite serious threat of jail thrown at me by the officials...