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...West also has its mechanisms, suitably adjustable to the occasion. Prosperous West Germany supplies the hungry East Germans with substantial quantities of food, coal and machinery, and the Communists would like to increase this trade. At week's end, the Bonn government casually let it be known that it was far too busy with the question of increased tolls to be bothered about increasing trade. Said Konrad Adenauer: "It won't last. They need East-West trade too badly...
...publishing the Yalta records, the State Department has probably made any chance of a high-level conference with the Russians impossible in the near future. Perhaps that was the Department's secret intention, but it may unwittingly have destroyed hopes for an East-West conference not only in 1955, but for a long time to come. As Prime Minister Churchill pointed out in his remarkably restrained comments on the release of the documents, diplomacy is simply impossible if diplomats must fear that a record of every exchange of views will be promptly delivered into the eager hands of Congressmen...
...increase in taxes. "If you refuse your confidence," he told the Deputies, "you will be favoring inflation, which is the highest and unfairest kind of tax." An off-again-on-again friend of European unity in the past, he voted for the Paris accords, believes in East-West trade...
...moth-eaten symbol of East-West friendship broke briefly into the news last week as President Eisenhower recalled the bear-skin rug given him in the last days of the war by Soviet Marshal Georgi Zhukov. The knowledge that Zhukov, the newly named Defense Minister, is a thoroughly professional soldier with the professional's innate caution, was probably the only encouraging aspect of the newest revolution of Moscow's inner circle...
...first place in the western division, and given a good chance to win the east-west playoffs, are the red-hot Fort Wayne Pistons, who at week's end led both divisions with a .773 percentage and had won nine of their last ten games. The Pistons' owner, Fred Zollner, a millionaire piston manufacturer, has spent gobs of money for playing talent, including Captain Andy Phillip, a backcourt ace, and for his coach this year hired Charley Eckman, an N.B.A. referee with no previous coaching experience. On the bench. Novice Coach Eckman comports himself like a cross between...