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...Deliberately or otherwise, your splendid piece on my book [Nov. 16] reversed the title. I do not blame you, though. It took much hesitation to decide on Coexistence & Commerce rather than Commerce & Coexistence. My foreign publishers wisely skirted the issue. After toying with The Tender Sword, they settled on Weapons of Peace, which (don't you agree?) by any other name are just as tender...
...were to retile the thing Sword's Play, however, you could just about sum up the evening's essential appeal. Sooner or later some learned anthropologist is bound to discover that sword play-whether it be little kids thrashing it out with crossed sticks or European masters fencing for a winning point-is a primitive kind of drama. What with its ritual, conflict, spectacle, and resolution, how could it be anything else? The Three Musketeers is full of such clashes of steel, and William Taylor appears to have done a fine job in teaching a couple of dozen...
Always, De Gaulle deported himself according to the stern precepts of leadership he laid down in 1934 in a small book called The Edge of the Sword. "Nothing demonstrates authority better than silence," he wrote. "There can be no prestige without mystery, for we have little reverence for that which we know too well." De Gaulle rarely granted private press interviews and seldom appeared in public. At his press conferences, held about every six months, 1,000 or so journalists would sit on frail gilded chairs in an ornate reception hall in the Elysée as De Gaulle answered...
...West's most effective weapon in the historic contest with Communism is not its costly and far-flung military establishment, but its superior capacity for economic progress. In a figurative sense, we can only conquer the East with the tender sword of commercial and industrial cooperation, and the human freedoms that go with it. The conquest will be even more tender in that deeply within the psyche it is deeply desired by the victim...
East-West trade last year accounted for only 3.9% of the world's $273 billion flow of goods. Slight as it seems, the figure is extremely important politically. While the leaders of the Communist countries would certainly resist any attempt by the tender sword to slice into their control at home, they are nonetheless prepared to make diplomatic gestures in order to enhance trading opportunities with the West. The Soviet willingness to reach an accommodation regarding West Berlin (see THE WORLD) and the cordial treatment accorded France's President Georges Pompidou on his recent visit to Moscow reflected...