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...when he won his first grand victory, the Battle of Blenheim (1704). By that age "Wellington had won his last and Napoleon was dead," notes Author Rowse. To the warfare of his time-a static business of formal sieges, sedate marches and textbook battles-Churchill brought a degree of speed, flexibility and dash that horrified friends and foes. After Blenheim, he fought nine more campaigns, won nine more major battles...
...Brooklyn, Stockbroker Freeman Koo, 33, Harvard-educated son of Nationalist China's longtime (1946-56) Ambassador to the U.S. V. K. Wellington Koo, took the oath of U.S. citizenship...
...Wellington Koo joined China's diplomatic service with the establishment of the Republic in 1912, and for nearly 45 years spoke brilliantly and urbanely for his awakening country at every major international conference, at almost every major capital. A graduate of Columbia University, he was Minister to Washington at 28; he was three times China's Foreign Minister, once its Prime Minister, once its Finance Minister. He is one of two living diplomats* who drafted the League of Nations Covenant in 1919; nearly a quarter century later he helped draft the U.N. Charter...
Last week, at 68, ten years after he returned to Washington to speak for free China, Wellington Koo delivered his last message and retired to live in suburban Westchester County, outside New York. From John Foster Dulles, who first met Koo at the 1919 Versailles Conference, where Dulles was a junior member of the U.S. delegation and Koo headed the Chinese delegation, went a warm letter. Koo's replacement: Hollington K. Tong, 69, member of the first class graduated by Columbia University's School of Journalism, China's propaganda minister in World War II, Nationalist China...
...France was not quite ready for Romanticism. When a British company came over with Othello, the pit howled: "Down with Shakespeare! Just one of Wellington's toadies!" Only six years later, "the atmosphere had completely changed." An artistic revolution had changed France from the last outpost of Classicism to a spearhead of Romanticism. Shakespeare was all the rage, closely followed by Byron, Sir Walter Scott, Schiller. France's poets, painters, sculptors and novelists all joined hands in this insurrection, but one and all acknowledged as their leader one of literary history's most spectacular figures-Victor-Marie...