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...brave design faced serious obstacles. Some of them were sourly expressed last week by General Charles de Gaulle. Although no site for the permanent Western command had been determined, De Gaulle feared that it would be London. Said he: "Europe must be defended in Europe ... I simply say that England is an island. I can't do anything about that, neither can she. And I say to you that Europe is not an island but a continent . . . The natural center of a defense plan is France. But for the present, France is hardly present. The problem of European defense...
...Jittery Cleveland needed only one game to win, and couldn't win it. On the last day of the season, the Red Sox caught up. The first tie in American League history called for a one-game playoff. Manager Lou Boudreau of Cleveland tried to put on a brave front: "It just means going to Boston a day earlier...
Before the American Bankers Association in Detroit last week, Westinghouse Electric's President Gwilym A. Price painted a brave picture of the new world ahead of U.S. industry, "an economy whose horizons will be almost as far beyond those of the present as today's are beyond those of our boyhood...
There is even more fuel for the fire to be found in the Boston press. Dave Egan '22 recently went on record with the reflection that only one Brave--southpaw Warren Spahn--could make the Sox first string...
Adenauer's brave words, however, were not entirely correct. There was some fear in this assembly-the fear that, at Berlin or Moscow, the West might drop its plans for a Western German state in some sort of a deal with the Russians. Several delegates anxiously buttonholed observers from the U.S. Military Government to ask whether the Big Four negotiations might not render the whole performance at Bonn "somewhat academic...