Apparently it isn’t a rule as much as an implied norm. I didn’t know this, thank you for educating me. Explains a lot about the article.

I’ve always been fascinated with how governments operate their clandestine operations. This particular article felt more like an expositional adventure than informative.

"Expositional Adventure" should be the title of a book about OSS/CIA action in europe during and after the war.

I like to think of the coffee and wine drunk to write all those artists manifestos the French intellectuals insist on publishing, all paid for by the almighty US dollar.

"the short reign of Pippin IV" by John Steinbeck (1957) is an amusing work about euro communism, royalty, youth culture and the american fascination with postwar france.

I would be very disappointed if it turns out "Shakspear et Cie" was in fact, part of this.