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Motivated by fear, both camps of international power have asked the same question, Krishna Menon said: "Can we trust the other fellow?" The mutual distrust tends to make the major powers unable to find a solution for every difficulty, but to find a difficulty for every solution, he stated...
...trying to finish his one attempt, an opera with a libretto based on stories by Germany's weird. Poe-etic story spinner, E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822). The Tales of Hoffmann, first produced in 1881, four months after Offenbach's death, was a smash. The French, who wisely distrust overly sweet wines, have always had a weakness for sweet opera, and much of Hoffmann fits into the sucre fashion of Gounod's Faust, Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila, etc. When it tries to get serious, it often just turns watery. But the score, if well played, always...
...announced that in 1956 it will spend a record $1.1 billion on expansion: 50% on searching for new oil, 25% on refineries, and the rest for new transportation and marketing facilities to get its products to consumers. Little Man Beware. In Wall Street there are still some experts who distrust the supposedly uninformed small investors; they like to quote the old saw that "when the little man comes in, it is time for the professional to get out." Actually, thanks to President Funston and the vigorous campaigning of brokerage houses that conduct stock-market classes all over...
...willing to let the other come snooping around every inch of its land. The real problem, then, is how and by whom inspection will be made, and this is a question of administration, not of theory. Instead of pursuing a bilateral agreement with Russia which each side would distrust, the U.S. should put disarmament in the hands of an unbiased agency. The United Nations is the obvious administrator...
Apathy toward reunification is also attributable to some of the regional jealousies and suspicions that originally hindered for so long the development of a German nation. There is still a lingering distrust in the Catholic South for the Protestant East, and no little hatred for the Prussians who, as one Stuttgart man said, "got us into this whole thing in the first place." But beyond any such specific suspicions, there is a lack of a real national feeling in Germany today. As the mayor of a small German city said after a visit to America, "Americans think of Germans...