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...proclaimed joyful news to a crowd. One by one, he haled 17 cleanshaven, tough-looking young men up beside him, and as each appeared the crowd yelled louder and hand-clapped rhythmically. The 17 young men wore faded U.S. Army Eisenhower jackets, adorned with the red, white and red patch of Tunisian independence fighters...
Last week Bernard Marmaduke Fitz-Alan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, announced that Ascot would relax its rigid rules. From now on, participation in a divorce action will not be grounds for automatic exclusion from the royal enclosure. The same old rigid rules would still govern admission to the patch of ground immediately before the Queen's box, known as the "Queen's Lawn." And now that the big barrier is down, said the duke, the size of the royal enclosure will be doubled...
...obvious to Parisians: Dulles had declined a conference with Premier Mendes-France to show the French people that the U.S. disapproved of their premier's policy towards E.D.C. In contrast, the slightly awkward haste with which Dulles has sought out Mendes-France during the past few days seems a patch-work way of atoning for what could possibly be a serious diplomatic blunder...
...diplomatic methods met with French political cowardice and both got along splendidly. On the one side, in France, we had a series of conservative governments, unwilling to face serious reform in the country's economy. At the end of each month, they were compelled to borrow money to patch up the gaps. It was all very simple. The leaders of the old French regime promised the U.S. almost everything: a military victory in Indo-China. an enthusiastic vote for the EDC, ringing measures against the Communist Party, etc. All this in exchange for millions of dollars which bolstered...
...physical and psychological thorn in Red China's side for five years, Quemoy Island is a bleak, treeless patch of rock and sand, 70 square miles in area, which lies only five miles from the mainland, twelve miles from the Communist port city of Amoy. Off Quemoy last week a furious little skirmish between the Chinese Nationalists and Communists was being fought across a few thousand yards of choppy blue water in Formosa Strait...