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Fortnight ago France's Pineau finally came forward and confirmed that "definite arrangements" were made at the meeting. "A treaty like the Anglo-French-Israeli treaty," he said on a BBC interview in London, "was necessarily secret, because the circumstances were very difficult." Pineau felt the time for secrecy was past. "I should think that after ten years," he noted, "it would be possible to say more. If my English friends after this period agree to voice all the truths about this question, I should agree." If any of Pineau's English friends were to speak...
...FOOD. The custom of three full meals a day has been established only since 1890. Anglo-Saxon tradition knew only two meals-breakfast and dinner-and in the 16th century, dinner was eaten at 11 a.m. While discussing diets, the rabbi rejects the notion that the Jewish and Moslem prohibition against pork started because of fear of food poisoning. The pig was taboo from earliest times because it was worshiped by primitive peoples who also sacrificed it to their idols and ate it in sacred meals. This made Jews, in their passion for monotheism, reject...
...born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1920. In July 1943, I lost members of my family, friends and my home through Anglo-American air raids, which almost destroyed my home town. These raids on Hamburg and other German cities, terrifying and hate-inspiring as they were at the time, played a decisive role in destroying Hitler's totalitarianism. Now I am a Canadian citizen. I am firmly convinced that my present religious and political freedom are owed directly to American participation in World War II. I do not envy President Johnson's position...
Wilson already had come out against the U.S. bombing of the Hanoi and Haiphong oil installations. With Anglo-American relations at stake, he would be pushed no farther. Summoning Labor M.P.s to a closed-door caucus the day before the Commons debate, he blistered the left-wingers, declared that some of them sought a Viet Cong victory. "What government, Western, Communist or neutral, has done more than the Labor government to seek a peace in Viet Nam?" demanded Wilson. When no one replied, he said dryly: "The silence is deafening and overwhelming...
...late October, 1956 came the Anglo-French-Israeli attack, and the canal was blocked by bombing and by hulks sunk by the Egyptians. A U.N. salvage effort, directed by U.S. Lieut. General (ret.) Raymond A. Wheeler, cleared the canal the following April, earlier than expected...