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...paratroops in Metropolitan France. In Paris white-faced ministers of the Fourth Republic nervously deployed a small army of steel-helmeted cops, not sure of their loyalty, and Interior Minister Jules Moch ordered coils of barbed wire laid out on 15 of the 18 airfields surrounding Paris. Escorting a visitor out of his office, ex-Premier Guy Mollet, onetime Socialist Resistance leader, soberly remarked: "We may never see each other again. I am going to die on the barricades...
...Cadillac sped through back streets and made it safely to the former Royal Palace, which now houses the Sovereignty Council. As protocol demanded. Rountree signed the official visitor's book, but then both Americans made the error of lingering for a half-hour of coffee drinking and talk with junior officials. It was enough time for the mob leaders to shunt their hoodlums across town by truck. As Rountree and Fritzlan left the palace, their car was nearly overwhelmed...
...over the years of the Nuri asSaid regime, which came to a bloody ending last summer. In turn, Rountree said the U.S. wanted friendly relations with Iraq and hoped that greater mutual confidence could be created. After exchanging platitudes for 90 minutes, Rountree left. Kassem's next visitor was the Soviet ambassador, who spent 45 minutes with the general in what was also described as "an atmosphere of friendship and cordiality" in Baghdad papers next day; on orders, each visit got equal space. Rountree left for Beirut that noon, a day early, after traveling to the airport...
...whimper nor glare from the traveling guntoter as they took temporary custody of three Colt .45s, one 14-in. long-barreled Buntline Special, 850 rounds of blank ammunition. On hand to keep Britain's cowpoke fans in the saddle by starring in a wild West hootenanny, the frisked visitor jovially drawled an apology for appearing in grey flannel: "Shucks. I'd feel rather ridiculous riding around in the marshal's outfit...
Awkward as all this was, State Visitor Ulbricht and his hosts did their dogged best to ignore the fact that even 13 years of joint servitude to Moscow has not wiped out the ancient hostility between Poles and Germans. Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka, bundled up against Warsaw's icy wind, greeted Ulbricht with the promise that "we will do all in our power to strengthen the international position of the German Democratic Republic.'' In return, Walter Ulbricht declared that he brought with him "the indestructible friendship of the German people...