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...Europe so that none can be easily withdrawn for aggressive adventures of its own. This is a more complicated ambition than simple rearmament; the result is a complicated blueprint. At the top, EDC will have 1) a Council of Ministers, 2) an 87-man Assembly, 3) a nine-man Commissariat, serving as a six-nation general staff. Together, EDC and the Schuman Coal-Steel Plan will form the military and economic pillars of a still more visionary federation: the U.S. of Europe...
...Lunacharsky, Commissar of Education, the historian Pokrovsky, and Ryazanov, biographer of Marx, took part. His harsh Georgian accent put him at a disadvantage in public speechmaking. Someone asked: "Who is Stalin?" Snapped Trotsky: "The most eminent mediocrity in the Party." But Stalin worked purposefully in committees. His Nationalities Commissariat, which had begun with a bare table in a bare room, numbered hundreds of "experts" and his control extended over 65 million of Russia's 140 million people...
...recruit, train and oversee EDF, there would be a Council of Ministers, a nine-man Commissariat, a Court of Justice and an Assembly. The Syman assembly embodied the highest hopes of Pan-European dreams: it would evolve, said the treaty, into a responsible European congress with jurisdiction over the Schuman Plan, EDC and, if all went well, a United States of Europe...
...André Morize (he published the first critical edition of Candide) arrived at Harvard as a dashing French lieutenant assigned to teach trench warfare to ROTC students, stayed on to make a career of teaching literature. With time out only to serve as a director in France's commissariat of information early in World War II ("You're pure," said Commissioner Jean Giraudoux, who appointed him. "You don't know anybody"), "Le Beau André" has remained at Harvard ever since-an elegantly tailored, youthful-looking six-footer who has never been known to deviate from...
Meanwhile, in Tihua, the Russians maintain a busy consulate general, a branch of their Foreign Trade Commissariat, the Sino-Soviet Aviation Corp., a branch of the Sino-Soviet Cultural Association, a school and a hospital. On Sundays, most of Tihua's Russians (more than 200 in all) go up the Urumchi River for an isolated picnic. In northwest Sinkiang and the western outpost of Kashgar there are even more Russians. Sinkiang workmen are mining valuable wolfram for them at Fuwen; others are tapping the rich oil pools at Wusu...