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...organized his artillery," De Gaulle asked the interpreter. After the reply, De Gaulle said approvingly: "You are a great artillerist." Still he refused to lay a wreath at the Stalingrad memorial. That recalled his comment to the Russians in 1944 when he viewed Stalingrad for the first time: "Un grand peuple les allenands." Everywhere he went, De Gaulle ate heartily, but at the Volgograd hydroelectric station he met his match. The station officials had prepared a 300-lb. sturgeon stuffed with caviar. De Gaulle eyed it skeptically and said: "There always has to be a victim." Only once...
Javits kept his constituents happy by faithfully representing their views. He voted against Taft-Hartley and the House Un-American Activities Committee, became an eloquent defender of the European Recovery Program. Though he sided with the G.O.P. about 62% of the time during his freshman term, he voted with the Democrats on most key issues. In the next Congress, his record of party regularity dipped...
...Sports," according to Cuba's Educa tion Minister José Llanusa, "cannot be separated from politics." That's an un sportsmanlike attitude if ever there was one, but what can one expect from a Communist from Havana? Or, for that matter, from the U.S. State Depart ment, the CIA, the FBI and nine Cuban exile organizations, all of which sent operatives to Puerto Rico last week for the Central American and Caribbean Games...
...pacifist movement was not completely dead. At the end of January a majority of students at the Divinity School signed a petition which was sent to Congress opposing any form of conscription on the grounds that it was un-Christian, contrary to American ideals, and self-defeating since it bred international misunderstanding and distrust. As war became more imminent, such protests became more unusual, and an increasing number of students at the University entered some form of voluntary military training...
...majority of men would be forever free from military service on the basis of mere luck would seem to put unnecessary-and possibly unwise-restrictions on presidential policymaking. As salty old Lieut. General Lewis Hershey, U.S. selective-service chief, said last week for the umteenth time: "I'm un willing to admit that blind chance is better than other methods-bad as they may sometimes be-for solving our manpower problems...