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...muggy heat of emotions and premature summer weather one man remained crisp and cool. Having weathered other bitter crises, France's Premier Robert Schuman was quietly awaiting his next test: the summing up at the end of the debate this week, and the Assembly's vote. Bidault was feeling the temperature more than his chief was. When he had finished his halting defense of the London agreement, the Foreign Minister walked slowly from the rostrum and took his seat on the government bench. He was sweating, but he muttered to Robert Schuman: "J'ai froid...
...crisp who's who of 506 Red leaders, prepared by Subcommittee No. 5 of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and published as a supplement to the committee's report on world Communism (Feb. 29). * Who, according to Aristophanes, persuaded the women of Athens to stage a strike against their husbands. * The ill-clad French revolutionaries who wore plebeian long trousers instead of upper-class culottes (knee breeches...
...serpentine affair into which this innocent adventuress lightly steps takes her to a Lebanese mountain village, then to Jerusalem and to Cairo. Sardonic Sergeant Prayle of British Field Security tails her with amusement, with concern, and finally with love. Along the way the reader is treated to crisp descriptions of an ancient and holy landscape, of types ranging from a touchy Gaullist officer to an Orthodox archimandrite and his mistress...
...crisp, strong voice did not betray her 61 years as she declared: "We"must have all communications flowing freely. We must keep Berlin unified, within a united Germany." This was little less than Berlin's German Mayor calling on the Russians to stop strangling the capital. The two Russian officers showed their unconcern-one by strolling out, the other by reading a newspaper. The assembly (all but the score of S.E.D. Communists) applauded...
...Congress helped him meet Britain's most pressing economic problem-the shortage of dollars. But how to check inflation? And how to induce people to work harder when there was still too little in British shops to buy? Cripps was characteristically clear and crisp. M.P.s did not like all he said, but they enjoyed the performance. When Cripps had finished his 2¼-hour speech, Winston Churchill (who had listened with eyes shut and feet resting on a table) rose and said: "... A comprehensive, lucid statement. ... It was refreshing...