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Next week's most distinguished foreign visitor to Washington: France's Premier Rene Pleven...
...Constellation headed north. In Copenhagen, Danes pridefully served their visitor some of their famed butter with his breakfast. But with a firm eye on his waistline he declined, insisted on dry toast, along with his caffeineless coffee (name: Kaffee Hag). Later, getting down to business, he was told that the 1,000-man Danish token force now in Germany would be placed under his command and enlarged to 4,000 men. Tactfully, he said: "Size has nothing to do with it . . . I have encountered nothing here but those things which have lifted up my heart...
Gatica, who was already in disfavor with the consulate, got hurry-up orders, and at week's end was back in Argentina. Brión was granted a few weeks' leeway, got an ordinary visitor's visa, and planned to try one more fight before going home...
Toward the end of World War II, a Kremlin visitor warned Stalin that the German Communist Party might-someday-outnumber and outdo the Russian party. Stalin snorted: "Communism on a German is like a saddle...
...garden of his modern home two miles outside Jedda, Saudi Arabia's shrewd old (60) Finance Minister Abdullah El Suleiman sat down to wait for a visitor. For greater comfort in the muggy 80° heat, he slipped off his sandals. When a U.S. car rolled up, barefooted Abdullah arose, greeted Arabian American Oil Co.'s Executive Vice President Fred A. Davies and ushered him inside...