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...recently been feeling neglected amid the comings and goings of the Big Four. He journeyed on to Paris for a meeting of the NATO Council. Dulles found the West Germans perturbed that the British might weaken the Western line, or bend it, by putting up some kind of "Eden Plan" that might tend to freeze the division of Germany; the British, however, were reassuring. Out of these meetings, Dulles confirmed the support of the Europeans upon the three formal questions of the agenda...
Deliberate Affront. Powerful forces joined to change the mind of the earnest, conscientious young woman of 25, forced to choose between love and duty. In Anthony Eden's Cabinet, in the Established Church, even in the palace itself, persons opposed to the marriage were bending every effort to make the Princess aware of the seriousness of the step she proposed to take. Each day that passed threw more pressure against Margaret's apparent determination to renounce her royal rights and marry Peter Townsend...
From Prime Minister Anthony Eden came even bigger deflationary news: a cut of 12½% in Britain's defense forces, a reduction in the armed forces (mostly in the army) from 800,000 to 700,000. "We are confident we can discharge our treaty obligations and maintain our position as a world power despite this reduction in numbers," said Eden...
...Reid doted on boyhood's weirder aspects-its imaginativeness, its crazy-paved fantasies. Tom, for instance, is a sleepwalker. His "walks" carry him in and out of time itself. He goes back to medieval days and alchemy. He goes back to ancient Greece, back to the Garden of Eden itself. "Well, Adam," says the serpent, "so you've come back at last . . ." But he has not brought any Eve with him-in fact, Eve is conspicuously absent from most of the trilogy...
Died. James Dean, 24, most promising young cinemactor of 1955 (East of Eden) ; in a collision as he sped along a darkening highway in his silver Porsche Spyder sports car to enter a road race one week after he completed work in a new film, Giant; near Paso Robles, Calif...