Word: stael
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perle's conception of herself as a combination Machiavelli and Madame de Stael makes White House aides smile quietly. Actually, she plays a more becoming role in the Administration: she entertains Harry Truman and his friends, gives pleasure in doing so, and gets pleasure from it. Said one aide flatly: "She has no more influence, policywise, than that post...
...house the Institute, the World Council had signed a five-year lease on the luxurious, 18th Century Château de Bossey at Céligny. ten miles from Geneva. In this elegant, vine-hung pleasure dome that once belonged to the brilliant Mme. de Stael,* 70-odd young men & women, selected as potential leaders, would study, think and talk Christianity...