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...with John Gielgud, who plays an animal- rights enthusiast dangerously disrupting the shoot. And there is another good performance by Cheryl Campbell as a coolly amoral aristocrat. Julian Bond's script is curtly literate, Alan Bridges' direction is more Masterpiece Theatre than The Rules of the Game. Still, as Winston Churchill once said, "The old world in its sunset was fair to see," and some of that ironic glow lights The Shooting Party...
Other Presidents--indeed, other leaders of many nations and many stripes --have found their ability to perform that trick sorely tested with changing circumstances. Sometimes their comeuppance has been temporary, sometimes permanent. Winston Churchill, for example, was the man of the hour for Britain and the alliance during World War II because of a magnificent stubbornness and attachment to basic, simple principles. Those same qualities, when applied to the postwar world, no longer seemed so magnificent; and Churchill's constituents, for all their gratitude, turned...
...destroyer could leave skid-marks, (H.M.S.) Kelly would have disfigured every sea in which she sailed." Even so, the author largely absolves Mountbatten of responsibility for the failure of the bloody 1942 raid on Dieppe, a sacrifice made inevitable by pushing and shoving between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. And Ziegler argues convincingly that Mountbatten's handling of the transfer of power in India in 1947 was a success, considering political realities there. He opposed the splitting off of Muslim Pakistan from India and tried to prevent it. But religion had its customary disastrous effect on politics. Hindus...
...Allied powers were struggling to gain ground in World War II when Franklin Roosevelt journeyed to Tehran for a meeting with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. Since then, every U.S. President has held a summit with his Soviet counterpart. Some have been successful: at the 1972 Nixon-Brezhnev conference, the two leaders signed the first Strategic Arms Limitation treaty, initiating a brief era of detente. Others have been less so: Nikita Khrushchev decided that John Kennedy would be a pushover after meeting him in Vienna in 1961 and a year later began installing nuclear missiles in Cuba; just six months...
...family portraits and mementos of more than two decades in the Foreign Service, but he did manage to salvage top-secret documents from the embassy. In 1978 the FBI investigated his handling of the files, but the Justice Department later decided not to prosecute. Martin, 72, has retired to Winston-Salem, N.C. He does not believe the war had to end in such a disastrous manner. "Had President Nixon served out his term," he says, "South Viet Nam would today be an independent, viable nation...