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...wedding as the royal procession made its way to Athens' honey-colored Metropolis Cathedral in a storm of red and blue strips of paper, dominant colors in the flags of Greece and Denmark. To the slow roll of drums, first came Constantine, resplendent in his beribboned white field marshal's uniform, and Queen Mother Frederika, their black, red and gold coach drawn by six white horses...
...What you are fighting at Harvard," said another Negro student, "is liberal paternalism. You get admitted to the college because you are a Negro. You get a scholarship because you are a Negro. Everyone wants to be nice to you. Run for class marshal--no one can afford to vote against...
Army investigators later found 25 German bodies, counted 35 machine guns put out of action by York. General John J. Pershing described York as "the greatest civilian soldier of the war." Marshal Ferdinand Foch told him: "What you did was the greatest thing accomplished by any private soldier of all the armies of Europe." York went back to the U.S. a sergeant with the Medal of Honor, received a wild hero's welcome...
...interest of world peace, is not to be confused with next October's "Belgrade Conference" of the neutralist bloc, which neither China nor Russia can attend. And the "Belgrade Conference" in turn is not to be confused with the Yugoslavia meeting to be held this month at Marshal Tito's hunting lodge. The lodge meeting will be the most exclusive of all. Just Tito and Rumania's Gheorghiu Dej, whose head may have swiveled last week but was certainly not turned. Their reported subject: how to head off both the Moscow and Peking pre-summits, as well...
...third force" in France, minus De Gaulle. They kept him in the dark about the Normandy invasion, allowed him to set foot on French soil only eight days later. But De Gaulle was unperturbed. As soon as he landed in France, he declined an invitation to lunch with Field Marshal Montgomery. "We have not come to France to have luncheon with Montgomery," he said scornfully, and headed straight for the first sizable town to be liberated-Bayeux. He promptly took over and installed his faithful deputy Francois Coulet as administrative head of the region. Coulet promptly fired the incumbent Vichyite...