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After a summer of doldrums and defeats-Geneva, Indo-China, the death of EDC-the democracies had suddenly rallied and rolled out some new and hand some diplomatic field-pieces: the all but completed Anglo-Egyptian settlement over Suez, the Anglo-Iranian oil agreement, the harmonious partition of Trieste and, above all, the potentially history-changing Act of London. With this quick parade of successes, the Atlantic alliance seemed to recover the ground, and the spirit, that were lost with EDC. Europe, with the potent help of the U.S., had produced a new plan to rearm the West Germans...
Attlee, made a ritual of rising, walking along the table to clink his glass in gracious courtesy with each delegate. He toasted world peace, Anglo-Chinese friendship, Queen Elizabeth. Chou even attended a banquet given by British Charge d'Affaires Humphrey Trevelyan, whose very presence Chou had ignored for more than a year...
...moment it landed in Liverpool, Paul J. Tusek's 1906-model Stanley Steamer turned the first Anglo-American Vintage Car Rally into a private competition with calamity. Like most antique cars, the "Stanley Gentlemen's Speedy Roadster" showed some stubborn and u predictable quirks. Its temperamental burners, which require a mixture of kerosene and gasoline, could not stomach the English brands. Its pilot light went out, steam pressure dropped, and the boiler filled with the fumes of unburned fuel. Tusek (an ex-paratrooper) tried to light things up again, but touched off an explosion that flashed flames...
...general election-in its campaign to "unify" Asia. Privately, Chou En-lai suggested that Britain might join Red China's long-sought chain of "Asia for the Asians" nonaggression pacts-indicating that Chinese Communism, not six years out of its rebel caves, aspired to break the Anglo-U.S. alliance...
...just this Anglo-Stoic reticence which makes Ned's letters read more like those of an ardent, puttering professor than an inspired leader of men. Hundreds of his early letters contain nothing more exciting than the measurements, in feet and inches, of innumerable loopholes, embrasures and arches, plus detailed information about the price of milk and bread and the state of his bicycle ("34 punctures to date ... in 1,400 miles"). If Ned's letters were the only clue to his identity, readers would think that all he did in World War I was collect stamps...