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Another problem rests not with Britons, but the U.S. Butler has insisted that the U.S. must lower its tariff barriers before convertibility can be made safe for Britain. If trade were freed and the pound made fully convertible, officials estimate that British buyers would snap up nearly $1 billion more of U.S. goods. The British economy could not stand the strain unless, in return, exports to the U.S. and Canada expanded by a comparable amount...
Mendes pressed on: "We were paralyzed by our indecision. Now that we are freed of that particular indecision, we must act and quickly." He proposed to recess the Assembly, but demanded a vote of support for the foreign policies he intended to pursue. The debate showed, he argued, that "if there is a division, it is not on the end, but on the means of organizing Western defense . . . Our policy is unchanged: that of the Atlantic alliance and the organization of Europe, which should be founded on Franco-German reconciliation ... I cannot believe that we shall fail to find...
Since he had had almost nothing to eat except rice during his imprisonment, he called for a dish of French fries and downed them ravenously. He cabled his blonde wife Jacqueline, who expected him in Paris in a few days: FREED TODAY, RETURNING TO HANOI. PASSIONATELY, CHRISTIAN...
...Communists returned some 15,000 prisoners; the French sent 63,000 Viet Minh captives back to Communism. This left unknown the fate of about 25,000 French Union troops, including 20,000 Vietnamese, and the Communists showed no sign of accounting for them. Among those freed by the Reds were five U.S. Air Force technicians, captured while absent without leave and swimming at a beach...
...inside, they discovered that half a dozen young military cadets had engaged the attentions of La Locha's choicest residents. Waving pistols and machine guns, the Liberators dragged the unhappy cadets into the corridors, forced them to strip and dance an incongruous cancan. When the cadets were finally freed, they dashed off to the Eseuela Politecnica (Guatemala's West Point), aroused their fellow cadets and told them of the latest indignity visited upon the regular army by the makeshift militia with which Colonel Castillo Armas seized power from Guatemala's pro-Communist government five weeks...