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...Michel Debré, twice into discussions with President de Gaulle himself. At last, after a flurry of ambiguous communiques, came the laconic announcement that despite De Gaulle's "appreciation" of Pinay's successful economic policies, Pinay was through as Finance Minister. To replace him De Gaulle named Wilfrid Baumgartner, 57, longtime governor of the Bank of France...
...More Games. By naming Wilfrid Baumgartner to Pinay's old job, De Gaulle adroitly sought to reassure France's business community that the Fifth Republic was not about to plunge into economic statism. Member of a famed French Protestant family, Baumgartner won the coveted title of inspecteur des finances at 27, has long been known as a "sound-money" man. He said that he had "formal assurances" that he could continue the policies "now underway...
...survey some of the city's monumental figures and their various states of inundation. William Ewart Gladstone: "The melancholy truth is that [he] does not stand close scrutiny these days. His bared head has been made indecently white by the birds of the Strand." Booze-hating Sir Wilfrid Lawson: "The pigeons have dealt most unkindly [with him]." Poet Robert Burns: "[His] slight defacement merely has the effect of giving him a tearful left eye." The situation in Parliament Square: "Disraeli, Peel and Derby, with the treetops above them, suffer more than Palmerston and Smuts in the open. Yet Lincoln...
...attractive and imports more expensive, but would cut the standard of living. Second choice is some form of economic integration with the U.S. That would probably involve the reciprocal reduction or elimination of duties (a reciprocity treaty was approved by Congress in 1911, but the government of Premier Sir Wilfrid Laurier went to the Canadian electorate asking support and was defeated). But that would erode Canada's economic sovereignty, which many Canadians consider already sufficiently imperiled...
Said Father Wilfrid Kelly of Crewe, Cheshire last week: "This is difficult to do, but the necessity for it is perfectly understandable. Think of Cardinal Newman's reference to the slow dance of the Mass. Read how God told the Israelites to build the tabernacle in the desert, and note the tremendous visual detail in his instructions. Our Lord's methods were perfect television, in three dimensions...