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...Hitler Is Lost." Schuman was born (1886) in Luxembourg, of an old Lorraine family. When Germany annexed Alsace-Lorraine in 1871, his family automatically became German, and Robert was German, technically, until his 33rd birthday. In school, he displayed a redoubtable memory. Said one of his teachers: "That boy will end by editing an encyclopedia...
...Happy Birthday. This month marks an anniversary for Karl Marx. Just 100 years ago his Communist Manifesto, a slender pamphlet bound in green, was first presented to a deeply uninterested public. Since then, public interest has increased. Karl Marx this week is everywhere...
...Quite a birthday for a manifesto. Quite a ripple for an unsociable old refugee who had sat, day after day, year after year, under the high glass dome of the British Museum's reading room, his clothes untidy, a sarcastic line edging his mouth...
That story summarized Marxism's challenge. For Marxism offered both reason and faith, both bread and miracles. Sharp ears this week could hear Karl Marx laugh quietly to himself on the Manifesto's birthday. The bourgeois, forgetting their own accomplishments, were remembering his carbuncles. "Yours forever," the old man seemed to say, "Yours forever, Dr. Crankley...
When the University celebrated the one hundredth birthday of the Lawrence Scientific School last week, the centenary was an unusual one. For the Lawrence scientific school was founded 101 years ago, and it had ceased to exist shortly after the turn of the century...