Foreign News: Agony of Decision

A French Air Force Dakota touched down one day last week at the Royal Air Force fighter base of Biggin Hill, near London. Out stepped a tired-looking Frenchman with a fat diplomatic briefcase. Pierre Mendès-France, Premier of France, was familiar with Biggin Hill: under very different circumstances he had visited it during World War II, as a navigator in a Free French bomber squadron.

Waiting to greet the Premier was Mendès' old commanding officer, Colonel De Rancourt, now air attaché at the French embassy in London. "You once confined me to quarters for ten...

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