Word: continente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ancient Dream. The urge-and need-to add German divisions to NATO is the No. 1 reason for EDC. Reason No. 2 is a long-term political objective: European Union. By intermingling the armies of France and Germany, Pan-Europeans like Konrad Adenauer, Alcide de Gasperi and France's...
The Bad News. The Secret Service compounded its original error, says Giskes, by making drops "rigidly and without variation for over a year." There is no telling how long the Secret Service would have kept it up if two agents had not escaped and told London the bad news. After...
Vital India. Such is the spacious plan of Pearl Buck's new novel, which, like most of her works, coolly takes a continent for its province. But her theme is even wider than her scheme-so wide, in act, that better novelists would find it hard to cover. Intricate...
Benelux's international trade is now the biggest on the Continent, though its population (20 million) is smaller than France. Italy or West Germany. Yet there is friction. Postwar politics complicated the unity: Holland lost her colonial empire in Indonesia, Belgium grew rich on hers; the population of Holland...
At about the same time, he rushed out his first volume of verse, and noted merrily: "In every bookseller's window I see my own name, and say nothing, but enjoy my fame in secret." Two years later, taking the staff of relativism firmly in his aristocratic hand, the...