Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...European dream does come true, Adenauer will go down in history as one of its creators. If it fails, his efforts will still have served West Germany well. He has won her respectability...
...clear dream had clouded over. The sharp-beaked vagaries of politics tore at the men who did most to shape and promote the EDC idea. First, down went Good European Robert Schuman, France's longtime Foreign Minister. He was thrown aside because France, tortured by division and illusion, turned in confusion and fear from its own brain child. Next went Good European Alcide de Gasperi, and Italy's ratification became questionable. The death of Stalin, and Churchill's insistence on sounding out the dictator's successor, gave the French more opportunity to haggle and hesitate...
...Sept. 6, the people of West Germany walked up to two doors to the future. Which would they choose? Western diplomats, disheartened by the fall of Schuman and De Gasperi, guessed timidly that Adenauer and the dream of Europe would squeak through-but barely. But the old man in the high, starched collar simply rode up to his Rhondorf home, went off to Sunday Mass, left orders not to be disturbed, and at day's end turned in for a long night's sleep...
Konrad Adenauer himself has also seen the brooding outsider. If the dream of Europe collapses, there is, he fears, the possibility of a revival of German militarism. "I never minimize this possibility if Europe fails," said he last week. "If France refuses to accept reconciliation with her former enemy, how we would accept the effect of such a reversal I do not know . . . The whole population would be affected. We cannot say what would happen. But we have had experience in the past...
...Minority of One (Tues. 10 p.m., CBS). A new series by Author Eric (Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House) Hodgins...