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...Premier of France before World War II. After France fell and Petain took over, Herriot mailed his Legion of Honor decoration to Vichy. The Nazis imprisoned him in Germany, and he was three times reported dead. But he came back and set up his own little camp along the tent-speckled riverbank of French politics, as nominal head of the right-of-center Radical Socialist Party...
...Some said he would have the same protection as if he were still President; others said no. Obviously Mr. Eisenhower does not remember all the Americans who lunched at his table in Europe during Worl'd War II. Secretary Morgenthau and White lunched with him at his mess tent in southern England on Aug. 7, 1944-Mor-genthau and White, then considering the postwar treatment of Germany, were pleased that Eisenhower favored a stern peace. Later, however, Eisenhower firmly opposed the Morgenthau plan...
...Indians sat down to lunch on the first day, ten fully armed Dafias came to the tent entrance protesting even further friendship and begging for more salt. An Indian sentry refused them entrance, but his commander. Major R. A. Singh, was so convinced of the tribesmen's loyalty that he urged them to come on in. Nine tribesmen marched into the tent. With one quick slash of his dao, the tenth turned and cut off the sentry's head...
Dance of the Dafias. At that, some 500 more Dafias came howling out of the forest to rush the Indian camp behind a sudden blizzard of poisoned arrows and long spears. Those inside the major's tent made short work of him and his fellows, while outside, Indian and Galong heads fell right & left. During the slaughter, three Galong porters managed to escape and carry news of the massacre to headquarters as the triumphant Dafias, holding the heads of their victims aloft, went into a wild dance of victory...
Chester catches sight of his destiny in adolescent flashes of intuition. Standing in a tent show before a penny-dreadful melodrama, he feels the actor's hypnotic hold on the crowd, senses that his words too may one day sway and spellbind. Standing, on another day, atop a rain-drenched knoll with his Adventist father and nine of the faithful awaiting the second coming of Christ, he feels his faith oozing away. He turns to the prophets of social revolution, soaks up the teachings of Proudhon, Marx and Bakunin. and becomes a labor organizer. But a violent and bitter...