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Before dawn one morning last week, a plastic-bomb* explosion wrecked Mayor Blanc's ancient Citroën, parked in front of the Beau-Rivage. Blanc leaped out of bed and ran for a phone in a ground floor office-just as the bombers had expected. Fifteen seconds after the first bomb, a second and larger one exploded on the window sill of the office, blowing off Blanc's shoulder and part of his face. "They got me," he gasped and 15 minutes later he died. Who were "they"? Presumably right-wingers who want no parleying with...
...confronted the nations at the end of the war. A perfect procedure for dealing with Axis criminals was not attainable. Nuremberg was perhaps the best, and certainly not the worst, of the viable alternatives. The United Nations, while approving the principles of Nuremberg, has not succeeded during the past fifteen years in establishing a recognized, stable international criminal jurisdiction to which resort could be had in a case like Eichmann's. So again in the Eichmann case a choice had to be made among practical alternatives, and it is quite wrong to condemn the procedure proposed by the Government...
Another related problem is the number of posts to be established inside Russia of the agreed total of 180. The West wants twenty-one, and Russians fifteen. There is also controversy over the staffing of such posts. The Russians demand that the head of a post must be a national of the country in which it is located; the West maintains that he must be a non-national...
...time disarmament negotiations are resumed this week at Geneva, their success of failure will already have been largely determined. Fifteen years of talks have shown little else but the fact that what is said across the tables is trivial compared to what goes on in the front offices and on the backstairs of government buildings in Washington and Moscow. The conferences are juggled back and forth between the hands of militarists, propaganda-minded diplomats, occasional wild-eyed idealists, and a few realistic advocates of arms control. If there are to be any results from this latest effort, then the balance...
...whether he will allow his envoys to negotiate freely. If Kennedy is sincere, there is a good chance for an agreement that may open the way for further arms control measures. But if the usual stalling techniques reappear, the diplomats may very well go on talking for the next fifteen years...