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When the agreement was announced. Mendez shouted that he had not really "agreed," but had "consented." Politically, Puerto Rico seemed to have reached the age of consent...
Most difficult to obtain would be the consent of France's National Assembly, which fears, with some reason, that a rearmed West Germany cannot be kept indefinitely in contractual confinement. Yet the writing on the wall was plain: if the French failed to ratify the European Army, the U.S. would inevitably rely more & more on Germany, less & less on France, to redress the imbalance of power between East & West. The postwar era of continuous U.S. concessions to French fears, delays and apathy was drawing to a close. The big new fact of Spring 1952 was the resurgence of Germany...
...being the most fabulous and incredible impostor alive, with the added distinction of having just been deported to France for allegedly defrauding some tourists. But even as far back as 1932, the facts of his life had been so liberally larded with fiction, frequently with his aid and consent, that the history of Mike Romanoff had solidified into an almost impenetrable legend. Although U.S. immigration authorities and some friends insist he is not an American, the most persistently recurring version of his background is that he was born Harry F. Gerguson in Brooklyn some time before the turn...
...emotional observer, indeed, is forced to the conclusion that only the abysmal showing the Tigers have made could have persuaded them to consent to the deal. Nothing but a desperate Detroit hope that "new blood"--no matter what type--would lift the Bengals out of the cellar could ever have brought about the deal...
...Mind Readers. The louder Stevenson shouted no, the more certain everyone seemed to be that he was really trying to say just the opposite. When newsmen asked him if he would consent to a draft he replied: "I cannot speculate about hypothetical situations. But I don't believe there has ever been a genuine draft movement of an unwilling man for the presidential nomination by either party. I doubt if such a thing is possible...