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Military aspects of the Atlantic Community will be discussed by Bruce C. Hopper '24, associate professor of Government, in Littauer Auditorium at 8 p.m. tonight. This is the fourth in the series of forums sponsored by the college UN Council on the general subject of "The Atlantic Community--A Going Concern...
...Coach Bruce Munro's varsity lacrosse players gave an indication of their individual and team strength in the four games they played during Spring recess. They showed varying strength in three losses to perennially strong Pennsylvania. Navy, and Maryland, but good teamwork keynoted the win over Stevens Institute...
...David Bruce, 50, hale and pink-cheeked, directed ECA's mission to France. Onetime son-in-law (now divorced) of Andrew Mellon, a prudent man of varied experience (law, A.E.F., consular service, banking, corporate affairs.* Red Cross, OSS, Virginia legislature, U.S. Department of Commerce), Bruce had become bound up, to the exclusion of almost everything else in his thinking and feeling, with the problems, virtues and defects of France...
Last week, as Parisians basked in spring's first sunny warmth, Bruce stood by his broad window in the U.S. Embassy Annex overlooking the Place de la Concorde. "The trouble with this weather," he complained lightly, "is that it makes the French too optimistic about their economy. Rain would be better for their crops." Many an EGA man believed that France, with her chronic slipshod finances and Communist sabotage, was ECA's biggest problem. Bruce was sure France could also be ECA's biggest triumph...
American aid had rescued the country from bankruptcy-and close on bankruptcy's heels had lurked dictatorship, not necessarily Communist, but certainly of harsh totalitarian economic control. Now France, in effect, had one leg in the emergency ward and one in the convalescent ward. It was Bruce's immediate job to get France entirely out of the first and into the second...