Full text of ' THE PAST HAS ANOTHER PATTERN MEMOIRS% GEORGE W BALL O-' U $ k' ' The Past Has Another Pattern MEMOIRS George W Ball • W • NORTON & COMPANY • NEW YORK • LONDON Unless otherwise credited, photographs are from authors personal hie. Distant relatives album zipper download. Copyright © 1982 by George W. ശരീരം വിറ്റതിന് പിടിയിലായ നമ്മുടെ ഇഷ്ട നടികൾ,സങ്കടമാവും| Actress arrested for immoral traffic Film Diary 6 months ago. All rights reserved. Published simultaneously in Canada by George J. McLeod Limited, Toronto. Printed in the United States of America. FIRST EDITION The text of this book is composed in photocomposition Basket ville. 1 he typeface used for display is Typositor Deepdene. Composition and manufacturing are by the Maple-Vatl Book Manufacturing Group. BOOK DESIGN BY MARJORIE J. FLOCK Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Ball, George W. The past has another pattern. Includes bibliographical references and index. Ball, George W. United States — Foreign relations— 1945- 3 - United States— Foreign relations— 1933-1945. 4 - Statesmen— United States— Biography. E840.8.B 974 AACR2 ISBN O-393-OI481-9 W. Norton 8 c Company, Inc. 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Norton 8 c Company Ltd. 37 Great Russell Street, London WCiB 3NL 7 Books by George W. Ball Diplomacy for a Crowded World The Discipline of Power The Past Has Another Pattern George W. Portrait by Everett Raymond Kinstler, 1973 To my brother, Stuart S. Ball, who knows much of this story better than I Contents Preface ^ Acknowledgments xi parti Years before Pearl Harbor 1. Al ain zip code area. The First Eighteen Years Are the Easiest / 2. From Depression to War, Ploughs, and “Habbakuks” iy part ii The War Years 3. Lend-Lease and the Avoidance of War Debts 29 4. The Bombing Survey ^2 5. Albert Speer on a Grade-B Movie Set 33 part 111 Monnet, Europe, and Law Practice 6. Jean Monnet 7. The Parturition of Europe 84 8. A Washington Lawyer pp part iv Adlai Stevenson and Politics 9. Stevenson 7// 10. The 1956 Campaign and After I ^ I 1 1. The French Crisis and Stevenson Again ( 1958-1961 ) 152 part v The Kennedy Years 12. Early Kennedy Years 163 13. The Context of the Time and the Kennedy Program 1^4 14. ![]() Assisting and Resisting the Third World 182 15. The Tradesman s Entrance to Foreign Policy 195 viii Contents 16. The Mystique of a Grand Design 208 17. Troubles in the Congo 222 18. The General and His Thunderbolts 259 19. Ayub Khan and Salazar 274 20. The Cuban Missile Crisis 286 2 1. Day of the Murder 310 part vi The Johnson Years 2 2. Sailing under a New Skipper 317 23. Cyprus 337 part vii The Vietnam Aberration 24. Vietnam — The Initial Error 3 6° 25. The Balloon Rises Quickly 3^5 26. The Dusty End of a Reign of Error 403 part viii The Private Sector 27. The Decision to Resign 424 28. The Private Sector — With East River Interlude 434 29. From Nixon to Ford to Carter 448 30. Over and Out 4^7 Notes 493 Index 509 ILLUSTRATIONS follow page 234 maps on pages 223 and 339 Preface More than a half-century has passed since I first read T. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom, yet I can still recall his vignettes of the personalities he encountered. I remember particularly his assess- ment of Sir Ronald Storrs, then the Oriental Secretary of the Residency in Cairo, whom Lawrence described as “the most brilliant Englishman in the Near East.” Storrs, he said, was “subtly efficient,” but he could have been far more so “had he not spread his energies over a wide spec- trum of.. Interests — or, in other words, “had he been able to deny himself the world..” I mentioned this comment one afternoon when Jean Monnet and 1 were working together in his country house at Houjarray, a few kilo- meters from Paris. “Of course, Lawrence was right,” he observed, “and you should take it to heart. You ought to deny yourself the world far more than you do. You shouldn’t diffuse your energies, let so many things light up your imagination. You should find yourself a single theme, a single cause, and devote your life to it. 1 hat’s the only way you’ll ever move mountains.” Though Monnet’s advice was no doubt right, he knew that 1 would not follow it. As this book discloses, I could never muster the discipline to concentrate exclusively on a single well-defined objective or — to put it another way — to hold any job very long. Monnet was not the only one to chide me about this. When, in 1968, under relentless pressure from President Lyndon Johnson, I undertook a brief stint as United States ambassador to the United Nations, my old friend John Kenneth Gal- biaith wi ote anxiously to record his bafflement at my “curious career pattern.” A book of memoirs is by definition an exercise in self-indulgence, yet to undertake such a task implies some acknowledgment of fading ambi- tion.
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