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...rises to pray at 4 a.m. each day, U Nu was meditating one day several years ago in the sacred cave where the first Buddhist council was held, when he had a vision of a great gathering of monks chanting the scriptures in a similar cave. In 1948 an unknown hermit sent U Nu a walking staff engraved with the words Siri Mangala (glorious prosperity) and instructions to build a pagoda. If the pagoda were finished by 1952, the hermit said, great buildings would grow up around...
...Directions has just published a translation of Guignol's Band, third novel of Louis-Ferdinand Celine. This contemporary French author is unknown to the majority of American readers, but in Europe he is one sort of successful writer: the controversial kind. At a time when it is difficult to be truly Avant-garden, he qualifies, and his followers consider him a permanent figure in French letters...
...feast day of Joan of Arc. There was little rejoicing on the gaily beflagged, sunshiny boulevards, but neither was there much demonstration. On the V-E holiday, police lined the Champs Elysées to protect the government ministers who came to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arch of Triumph. President René Coty-whose badge of office usually excites big applause -got only a scattering of handclaps. Premier Laniel's car rolled past and some shouted and hissed. "Send him to Dienbienphu," cried some. "Shoot him!" others shouted. Defense Minister René Pleven drew...
Last week, in observance of the ninth anniversary of V-E day, General de Gaulle dramatically appeared, as he had promised he would, at Paris' Arc de Triomphe to pay homage "alone" to France's Unknown Soldier. It was two days after the fall of Dienbienphu, and the worried police made the biggest show of strength since the anti-Ridgway riots in 1952. More than 10,000 steel-helmeted police and armed guards assembled, truckloads of mobile guards blocked every sidestreet, and police aircraft hovered overhead. A full hour before De Gaulle's appearance, a crowd...
...chairman of the Politburo, secretary of the Central Committee. Little known but very powerful. Close to Mao, and said by some to be the heir apparent. Theorist and dogmatist of the party and, like Stalin and Malenkov in Russia, the one who controls its elaborate apparatus. He was practically unknown outside the party a decade ago; his first book, How to Be a Good Communist, introduced him in 1939 as a prime dialectician. Married: twice (first wife killed by Kuomintang troops in 1934). Children: a son and daughter of whom it has been said that, when they meet with...