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Garry Davis, 27, who tore up his U.S. passport in June 1948 to become a "citizen of the world," was trying to return to his native land. In Strasbourg, France, he applied at the U.S. consulate for an immigration visa, was told to go to Paris to get it. Davis said he was "astounded" at the news that Audrey Peters, 20, a Hollywood dancing teacher he had written to but never met, had announced her engagement to him. Dancer Peters said she started corresponding with Davis six months ago and "things got out of control . . . you know...
...Great Pain." He had gotten invitations to other bicentennial Bach festivals in Europe and the U.S. Among them: bids to play in Strasbourg with the great Bach organist, Albert Schweitzer, and in Leipzig's venerable Thomas-Kirche, where Bach himself had been cantor. He had turned them all down, although "It gave me great pain to refuse...
Business was booming at the Verrerie Marquot, a glass works at Fains-les-Sources, halfway between Paris and Strasbourg. The factory was turning out $50,000 worth of glassware a month. With his furnaces producing at full capacity, Gustave Marquot, the 29-year-old owner, last week was studying plans for expansion...
When Robert Schuman replaced him as Foreign Minister in 1948, Bidault sulked for a while on the Riviera, then plunged back into party politics and was elected president of the M.R.P. He was the French delegate to the Council of Europe at Strasbourg, and showed himself, in the phrase of one observer, "a sincere and ardent bickerer" for European cooperation...
Such well-intentioned enthusiasts as Teitgen tried to march too fast. This was just what the sponsors of the Strasbourg movement had feared might happen. Before he left for a breather at Nice, Churchill himself championed the go-slow view. "We must not attempt on our present electoral basis," he said, "to challenge the powers that belong to the duly constituted national parliaments founded directly upon universal suffrage. Such a course would be premature...I will not prejudge the work of the committee (drafting unification plans), but I hope they will remember Napoleon's saying 'A constitution must...