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...Achtung, Achtung!" In a Hamburg suburb, Ollenhauer lambasted German rearmament with the particularly hollow charge that it was lowering Germany's standard of living, then motored out to the East-West border village of Eichholz on what he hoped would be a dramatic demonstration of his concern for German reunification. Ahead of Ollenhauer's Mercedes went a grey Volkswagen with loudspeakers chanting: "Achtung, Achtung...
John Diefenbaker is proudly and confessedly a nationalist, in a nation whose oldtimers can recall when annexation by the U.S. was still a live political issue. His special concern is how to bind together the 4,000-mile-long, east-west ribbon that is populated Canada, weaving it strongly enough to resist the fraying influences of the north-south pull of economics and geography. How to make a nation out of Canada has in fact been the historic preoccupation of both of Canada's major parties almost to the exclusion of doctrinaire, right-left, capitalism-socialism struggles. Canada...
...parable of East-West relations, the book is not worth a spill of rice paper. Yet somehow it may be fascinating as an example of the kind of charm which, incomprehensibly, industrious Pearl Buck has exercised over a generation of U.S. women readers-and even over the Nobel Prize committee. Perhaps unintentionally, the book gives a portrait of merciless maternalism. The real crisis comes when young Rennie, forgetting that father Gerald in Peking has forbidden him to use any but the "stately name of Mother," comes out with the awful truth...
Died. Louise Schroeder, 70, mild-mannered spinster who gained international admiration as Berlin's Acting Lord Mayor (1947-48) during months of the taut, East-West political contest for the city, climaxed by the Russian blockade and the Allied airlift that broke it; of a heart attack; in Berlin...
...view, the risks are outweighed by the opportunities. If the Russians (as he said at his press conference) now show themselves to be "reasonable, logical men," the first reversal in the eleven-year-old East-West armaments race might be in sight...