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...fortnight of caterwauling nationalism, the German press screamed that the French were plotting economic annexation of the Saar. Bonn's Minister of Justice Thomas Dehler scoffed at French fears. German aggression, he said, was a "fairy tale"; German responsibility for the first World War had been no greater than France's. "Hitler," he shouted, "was a product of the Versailles treaty and of France's own despondency." To emphasize the Saar issue, the Bonn government called off a trade parley with the Quai d'Orsay...
...more than a fortnight neither side gave an inch. The break came last week just as Hume Wrong, Canada's ambassador to the U.S., was getting ready to take the problem to Secretary of State Dean Acheson. The U.S. State Department asked Wrong to delay his visit for one day, and submitted informally a surprising new set of U.S. terms. The request for a blank check for military aid was dropped. The demand for cash in advance was changed; Canada could use letters of credit. The third stipulation-that Canada export no U.S.-made arms without permission-was watered...
From Germany a fortnight ago came a news report which made a brief page-one splash and then got lost in subsequent European dispatches. The story concerned an organization known as the Bruderschaft, or Brotherhood--a group of German generals and staff officers set up after the war to aid the widows and orphans of dead officers...
...capital since ex-President Lázaro Cárdenas expropriated foreign oil companies' properties in 1938. The well contributed its bit to the rise in Mexican oil production, which has soared from an average 130,000 barrels daily in 1946 to an all-time record last fortnight of 229,000 barrels...
From a full page in Look a fortnight ago, Abraham Lincoln's rugged face looked out, seeming to endorse the ten aphorisms printed alongside his picture. Look thought "it's about time for the country to remember" such Lincolnian sayings as "You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift," "You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer," and "You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred...