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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second place, neutralization of Germany would shatter the dreams of European unification which, while set back with the defeat of EDC, still flourish as the ideal of many Europeans and particularly many of the most democratic elements in Germany. To destroy this ideal now is to destroy perhaps the best chance to bring a lasting peace to Europe. Furthermore, a neutral, reunified and rearmed Germany would hold tremendous power to play East and West off against each other, and might thereby emerge once more as a danger to peace. Finally, by freeing a rearmed Germany from the strict control...

Author: By The Balancer, | Title: Germany and the West | 5/25/1955 | See Source »

DISARMAMENT. During nine years of disarmament discussions, both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. have presented proposals. The Communist formula has always been basically and unacceptably the same. It would destroy the U.S. lead in nuclear weapons, but would preserve the Russian advantage in military manpower. The new Soviet plan submitted to the U.N. subcommittee on disarmament in London last week appears to make enough concessions to be worth discussing (see FOREIGN NEWS), but the manner in which it was publicized indicates that it is little more than another Communist propaganda gambit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Opportunity | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

Each of these samples is put in a test tube with a tissue culture made from monkeys' kidneys. If there is still any active virus present, it will multiply and, in the process, destroy some of the kidney tissue cells. After a week, technicians use microscopes to see whether kidney cells have in fact been destroyed. If any have, the vaccine batch is thrown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Dangerous Short Cut | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

Previously two lawyers who are trustees of Suter's estate had petitioned the court to compel the student to take the money. They said that if he did not accept the inheritance it would destroy the trust and amount to alienation of income in violation of the personal property...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eli Senior Wins Right To Renounce $400,000 | 5/20/1955 | See Source »

...Sukhanov was hauled up in a dress rehearsal of the confession-and-purge trials to come. The charge : promoting Western military intervention to destroy the Soviet state. He pleaded guilty. Once in jail, however, he wrote an indignant appeal to the government - now run by the "grey blur" - and circulated a copy through the jail. Among other things, Sukhanov demanded that the GPU honor its promise "to release those willing to make untrue confessions." No one ever heard from him again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How It Started | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

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