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During the war, Dr. Frank ("Soul Surgeon") Buchman and his bright-eyed disciples of Moral Re-Armament concentrated on the U.S. Last spring they bounced back across the Atlantic, to set about "changing" Europe (TIME, May 13) with their "ABSOLUTE HONESTY, ABSOLUTE PURITY, ABSOLUTE UNSELFISHNESS AND ABSOLUTE LOVE...
...British friends said to me the other day, 'Why do you need to bring them also on the Rhine?' "My reply is that without international control of the Ruhr there is no German disarmament. It is equally clear that everything which concerns German dis armament directly interests Russia. But if it is fair that the Russians should be with us in the Ruhr and on the Rhine, it is equally fair that we should be with them in Silesia and Saxony and on the Danube. I would even say that one of the essential merits of international...
Almost inextricably tangled, the troop-and-armament matter was hustled back to subcommittee. Sir Hartley tried simultaneously to save, face for Britain, and The Bomb for the U.S., by rewriting his resolution, whereupon Russia's Vishinsky accused him of welshing on his "gentleman's agreement" with Molotov. Assembly President Spaak (who happened to be the subcommittee chairman, and who has been an unpublicized tower of strength during the whole meeting) saved the day by separating the troop question from the armament question. The troop count was abandoned; the disarmament plan, thus disencumbered, was sent on to the plenary...
Then Russia yielded on two hotly disputed points, and developments came thick and fast. Since October 29, the Assembly had been bogged down in a fruitless discussion of disarmament and atomic control. Russia had championed the publication of armament statistics but had opposed an inspection system or the abrogation of the veto in matters concerning disarmament. Exactly why the Soviet delegation about-faced is not clear, and all sorts of motives from the most base to the most noble have been advanced; but on November 29 Mr. Molotov agreed to an international arms inspection, and five days later came...
...initial measures, once de-armament was accomplished, were refreshing abolitions and reforms. The democratic leaders and groups so long in either prison or retirement, began to reappear. But at the same time a pervasive fear of Russia was growing among American military and civilian officials. Many went so far as to adopt the idea, beloved of Japanese die-hard militarists, of Japan as an American Gibraltar against Rusia. At very least, the Soviets became suspect of designs on Japan; all communist, and indeed all leftist, activity in the country was seen as Russian-inspired, and Russian interest that paralleled...