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...Recalling the lesson of Munich, he said: "In the 1930s we made our fate not by what we did but by what we failed to do. We propelled ourselves -and all mankind-toward tragedy, not by action but by inaction. The failure of free men was not of the sword but of the soul-and there must be no such failure in the 1960s...
Petain's Clean Sword...
Norman Thomas and TIME. But for 25 years "the cleanest sword of Europe" (as Petain called him) has been the same, without ambassadors, United Nations, and economic help. And now, when he is 72, our only problem is to find another competent statesman to follow his path and shun the ways of some sticky Westerners. Meanwhile, the U.S. in it's own interest should wish us good luck...
...SWORD IN THE STONE (Disneyland) is as bright as Excalibur. It is the ageless legend of the exploit by which young Arthur, the humble knight's equerry, became King of England. Arthur is simple of soul and fairly regal in silence, but Merlin is a beguilingly garrulous, absent-minded wizard...
...Women, Weddings and Wives," "Red Heads, Dead Heads and No Heads," and the "Kinship of Kourtship and Kissing." On Thanksgiving Eve 1915, Simmons took 15 friends to the top of Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, built an altar on which he placed an American flag, a Bible and an unsheathed sword, set fire to a crude wooden cross, muttered a few incantations about a "practical fraternity among men," and declared himself Imperial Wizard of the Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan...