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...midweek, he looked forward to three quiet days of conferences with France's Foreign Minister Georges Bidault and Britain's Anthony Eden, to talk over tactics before Geneva. In a matter of hours, the air of leisure was abruptly shattered. While the world wondered and worried, statesmen scurried from one closed room to another, generals emerged tight-lipped from secret meetings...
Regarding the EDC: I agree with a great many French statesmen or soldiers-including General de Gaulle, Edouard Herriot, Marshal Juin-in considering that scheme as a terrible danger for my country...
Even as they talked, one woman who always speaks her mind, Birth-Controller Margaret Sanger, became the first American woman ever to address members of the Japanese Diet. Armed with a load of information about new drugs and contraceptives, she urged the scientists and statesmen of rapidly expanding Japan (population increase: 1,000,000 yearly) to redouble their efforts to ease at least one of woman's burdens...
...pledged an armored division to serve in the proposed European army. Air force units will also be given. Although the treaty does not make the United Kingdom a member of EDC, it provides for co-operation that is so close and complete that there is little difference. Some French statesmen have indicated that they feel Britain has not promised enough. This view is hardly realistic, however. By making the present commitment, Britain has made a great concession of sovereignty. Certainly, in the event of war, more aid would immediately come. As opposed to France and other continental states, Britain...
First to move in was the Massachusetts Legislature. In 1769, when British troops landed in Boston, terrified colonial statesmen petitioned the College for a meeting place across the Charles. Since Holden was empty, it was selected. In the years that followed, students packed the galleries to learn James Otis' lesson in revolution; and when revolution came, Holden again played its part. Colonial troops flooded into Cambridge, 160 of them squeezing into the tiny Chapel. When they finally rolled out, Holden was almost unfit...