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Historical attention-partisan and otherwise-has mostly centered onYalta and the deals made there by the dying Franklin Roosevelt. But it was actually at Potsdam that the wartime Anglo-American-Russian collaboration fell apart. The division of Germany was sealed there as postwar spheres of influence were confirmed. In the West, a shocked public blamed the intransigence of Stalin. But in this close and lively look at the three Potsdam participants Charles Mee, the former editor of Horizon now turned popular historian, gives nobody credit for good intentions...
...when the camera swings to the Anglo-Saxon side of the Pacific, com passion is jettisoned. That football game, for instance: manifestly the scrimmage is seen as a microcosm of American platitudes. But if sport so accurately reflects a society, what are we to say of the Indians' bloody game of lacrosse? Or the Latin American madness for soccer? The film's visits to Middle America strive for irony and, often, emerge as smugness or crass caricature. An ex-P.O.W.'s return to New Jersey is played against a background of red-white-and-blue-blooded...
...Muecke indicated that he would exact fines on each of as high as $4,000 and impose jail sentences of up to 45 days. Instead, Muecke was taking his cue, he said, from the ancestral Indian practice of demanding reparations for a crime, as well as from the Anglo-Saxon concept of wergild ("mangold"), which translates roughly as payment or satisfaction. "Any fine I would levy would go to the Government, and that would be like spitting in a blast furnace," went Muecke's tart reasoning...
...could draw on Pan Am's technological and marketing skills to help fulfill the Shah's dream of making his Iran Air a major force in international transportation. In fact, Iran last week bought six Boeing jumbo jets from Trans World Airlines and plans to acquire three Anglo-French supersonic Concordes. As a sweetener for granting the loan, Iran would also get a chance to buy the controlling interest that it has been seeking in Pan Am's profitable Intercontinental Hotel chain...
...silver sea . . . partially from dangers, absolutely from the temptations which attend upon the local neighborhood of the continental nations." As for the French, it would still have been a long way to Tipperary, anyway. Unless, of course, Monsieur Billecocq was looking ahead to the even greater improbability of an Anglo-Irish chunnel...