National Affairs: Discouraging Visit

At the arm of Chairman Walter George of the Foreign Relations Committee, French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau last week walked into the Senate chamber to deliver a little speech saying how glad he was to be in the U.S. Already his text had been passed out to the press ("the honor you have done me, and through me to my country, by inviting me to say a few words . . ."). But Christian Pineau never got to the rostrum. The State Department had neglected to tell the secretary of the Senate that he...

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