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Ahead is an even greater dream-an Atlantic Community in which the U.S. and Europe will be full partners. No one realizes better than Monnet the meaning of such an Atlantic union for the fractious, fragmenting world, chaos-riven as it is from the East River to Elisabethville, from Berlin to Namone. "Union is not an end in itself," says Monnet. "It is the beginning on the road to the more orderly world we must have in order to escape destruction. The partnership of Europe and the United States should create a new force for peace...
...turned to good advantage his distaste for extremes. By contrast, the party leadership embraces former Nazis, old-school German liberals, and a group with the sinister-sounding name, "technicians of power." In less than two years as its chairman, Mende has not only kept the party's fractious left wing in line but has also won heavy backing from the Ruhr's ultraconservative industrialists...
...nation's chief executive. His legal powers were sharply limited under a constitutional amendment changing the government from a presidential to a parliamentary system. How much actual power he might wield depended on how well he got on with his Prime Minister and with Brazil's fractious, many-partied Congress...
...Bulldog. During those perilous years, Smith won the esteem of such fractious military men as Britain's Montgomery, France's De Gaulle and the U.S.'s General Mark Clark. When Eisenhower was preparing to leave for London to direct the Normandy invasion, Winston Churchill (who dubbed Smith "the Bulldog") begged him to leave Smith in the Mediterranean theater as chief of staff. "But," recalled Ike in Crusade in Europe, "to this I could not agree . . . General Smith suited me so completely that I felt it would be unwise to break up the combination just as we were...
Perverse Plutonium. Another problem fuel is plutonium, which may some day become the principal source of nuclear fission energy. Last week the Argonne National Laboratory dedicated its new $4,000,000 Fuel Fabrication Facility, whose principal job is to make fractious plutonium behave...