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...what factor or what event will provoke the necessary change in the regime," he said in 1955, "one can only say that it will come." As the Fourth Republic flounders from crisis to crisis, the De Gaulle alternative is more and more discovered in France. A haughty, stubborn man, sensitive to history, conscious of legality, he was against the domination of a weak Parliament, but he probably did not want to be a dictator. He actually favors a stronger executive somewhat like the U.S. For his present prospects, see FOREIGN NEWS, "I Am Ready...
...quality: intelligence. Then how can one suppose that I am so unintelligent as to want to make a coup d'etat? . . . The era of the coup d'etat is past. It is an anachronism which does not at all correspond to my temperament." During the war, stubborn as he was with allies, he freely allowed himself to be overruled by Free France's Liberation Committee. And in the immediate postwar years, when France was in his hands and absolute power might have been his for the seizing, he accepted political extinction rather than violate "republican legality...
Vindication. Wrote the New York Times's Drew Middleton: "Dulles' prestige among governments allied with the U.S. is probably higher now than at any time since he first became Secretary of State. This stubborn, proud man has, in a comparatively short span of six months, seen both his stubbornness and his pride vindicated." At the Paris conference, recalled London's conservative Daily Telegraph, "Mr. Dulles stood out from his other ministerial colleagues like a gnarled tree stump, incongruously recalling the hard winds of winter among a bed of spring flowers all heralding the soft days of sunshine...
...Macy publicity man: "He has a fantastic pull with the kids. He can pack 2,000 in 400 square feet!" Nobody seems to care that Captain Video is no longer battling extraterrestrial badmen in outer galaxies. For though the show is dead, the character lives on, like a stubborn ghost, to haunt Actor Al Hodge, who portrayed the gallant captain for five years on the nation's TV screens. "I've made more personal appearances as Captain Video since I've been off the show than I ever did on it," says Hodge. "I've been...
Painkilling Drug. But his parents are not a bad sort, merely ignorant, stubborn, anxious, self-righteous and poor. Papa is a Swedish immigrant, a brooding, phlegmatic day laborer who can rarely get a day's work. In the evenings he takes to his Bible as to a painkilling drug. Mama works at home pasting paper bags together for a local factory. She keeps a kind of debit account with God, believing that she owes heaven a prayer of gratitude whenever life on earth is remotely bearable. The parents arrange things so that the boy sees his preacher once...