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Florence to Munich. Many festival cities are near saturation point. Last year Florence's 8,000 spare beds were entirely insufficient to handle the 600,000 out-of-towners who were in the city during the Maggio Musicale. Hardly any of the festivals show a profit (most of them are subsidized), but tradespeople consider them fine for cashing in on the tourist dollar. This summer 600,000 U.S. visitors are expected in Europe. The more dedicated festivalgoers have written for tickets a year or so in advance, but travel agencies still book a symphony concert as handily...
...float in a quiet inlet of the river. Or he may try a harmonica and accordion festival in Nürnberg, where the best West German bands will be chosen at the end of this month. To escape from the harmonicas, he may try the palace of Herrenchiemsee near Munich, where chamber music will be performed by the light of 4,000 candles. If, on the other hand, he wants solid fare with a lather of expensive soloists and music he might recognize, he can follow his ears almost anywhere...
...seems less a party than an agglomeration of individualists, whose main bonds are anticlericalism, wine and good eating. The Radicals include able Premier Edgar Faure, who fears a Mendes comeback. They include such other ex-Premiers as slothlike Henri Queuille, the father of immobilisme; Edouard Daladier, the appeaser of Munich; 82-year-old Edouard Herriot, who fought German rearmament tooth and claw. And they include two diehard conservatives, Léon Martinaud-Déplat and René Mayer, who engineered Mendès' downfall. The Radical Socialists come close to being the fulcrum of French politics...
...Remember Munich. Only four hours after the President had made his statement, California's Knowland summoned the press and attacked the position of his party's Administration. Said Knowland: "I find it hard to comprehend how we could enter into direct negotiations with Communist China without the interests of the Republic of China being deeply involved. History teaches us that prior experience of great powers negotiating in the absence of small allies has not reflected great credit upon the large nations, and has been disastrous to the small ones . . . I refer to Munich . . . and to Yalta...
...called any grant of concessions to Communists equal to the yielding of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany in the Munich Conference of 1938. "The loss of Quemoy and Matsu have both a military and a psychological...