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He may have been right-for that afternoon Johnson received a summons from Harry Truman to come on the double. Galloping to Truman's suite, Johnson found Harry ready to leave for his climactic news conference. Said Harry to Lyndon: "I'm opening this thing up so anybody...
From all parts of the globe this week, foreign ministers of the world's major maritime powers converged on London. They were answering a summons from Britain, France and the U.S. to seek ways and means of countering Egypt's seizure of the Suez Canal. But many among...
Thirty bowler-hatted London bankers trooped solemnly into No. n Downing Street last week, on an unprecedented summons from Chancellor of the Exchequer Macmillan. the liveliest man in the government of Anthony Eden. Urbane Harold Macmillan (who delights in his new Threepenny Opera nickname of "Mack the Knife") wanted to...
Niarchos spends little time at any of his nine offices from Hamburg to San Pedro, transacts top-level business with bankers and charterers (in fluent French or English) over leisurely luncheons at quietly opulent restaurants such as Manhattan's Chambord and London's Mirabelle. Wherever he goes, he...
"My profession," said France's testy, unpredictable Alphonse Juin in Morocco in 1951, "is to make war−and I am making war." There were others who thought his job in Morocco was to make a peace possible−but then, Alphonse Juin was always a man of stormy...