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...another doubt that turned around Adenauer's failure to get any definite commitment on the reunification of his country. But the possibilities there were strictly limited. The Russians could have agreed to reunification, provided that the Germans agreed to get out of NATO. This was the hidden bait in the Kremlin's invitation to Adenauer. The Russians knew how powerful in German public opinion is the drive to reunite their country. Any German political leader less staunch than Der Alte might have been pressured into it. But Adenauer's loyalty to the Western alliance is so crystal...
However costly the bait, the industrial fishermen think that the catch is worth it. New payrolls broaden the tax base, raise per capita income and, in turn, attract more industry to diversify and stabilize employment. For example, in Los Angeles County, 1,576 highly diversified plants (total investment: $500 million) have opened their doors since 1945. As a result, Los Angeles has easily been able to weather such economic setbacks as the citrus slump and the sharp postwar cutbacks in the aircraft industry. In ten years, the Cleveland area has brought in more than 200,000 new jobs...
ERNEST Bevin would often remark that his one nightmare was lest the Americans should once again fall for the Russian bait [of appeasement]. "If the two of them gang up, there will be nothing left for anyone else." This may prove to be the broad outline of Geneva. Americans and Russians find it easy to jettison one set of principles and try another. British politicians, particularly British Socialists, are not so adaptable. Yet, if we read the meaning of Geneva aright, the feat must be undertaken...
...that Bungo Pete has sunk the Walrus, skippered by his former executive officer. With a fury worthy of Melville's Captain Ahab, Richardson takes another submarine straight to Bungo Pete's lair. One stormy night he lures Pete out, torpedoes Pete's tincan and his sucker-bait freighter, and to make vengeance dead sure, rams and sinks all lifeboats. Even when the yarn runs right away with him, Author Beach keeps jamming in the authentic details, the tingling stress, the sweaty crush, of the submariners' war. This is he-man's, seaman's, reading...
ROUGH WINDS OF MAY, by Nancy Hallinan (425 pp.; Harper; $3.95), is a first novel that leaps like a trout with lust for life. A canny angler, Novelist Hallinan, 34, uses enough bait for three regulation novels: 1) the English family, full of cooings, cluckings, crises and crumpets, 2) the adolescent caterpillar sprouting the butterfly wings of maturity, 3) the Panlike pipings of Bohemia competing with the dull drill calls of middle-class life. Novelist Hallinan's Pan is a fat, wheezing, believable genius named Jubial Kerr who huffs and puffs rude reality into Rough Winds...