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Back up the mountain road to the Petersberg drove Adenauer & Co. They told the three high commissioners-the U.S.'s John J. McCloy, Britain's General Sir Brian Robertson, France's Andre François-Poncet-that they were ready to make the 22½? rate public at once. But the commissioners, whose powers under the Occupation Statute give them control over foreign exchange, asked the Germans to wait...
Despite smiles at the concert hall, François-Poncet became so enraged in Berlin that McCloy left, flew back to Paris to see François-Poncet's boss, Premier Henri Queuille. Late getting back to Germany, McCloy landed at Wiesbaden, 45 minutes closer to the Petersberg than Frankfurt's Rhein-Main airfield, and raced to a new High Commission meeting. It lasted 19 hours, from 11 one morning until 6 the next...
Sacred Loyalty. At week's end, Churchill addressed 20,000 people in Strasbourg's main square, after being resoundingly bussed by a young Strasbourgeoise. "Prenez garde, je vais parler fran-çais," warned Churchill ("Look out! I'm going to speak in French...
Last week Parisians were flocking to the government's Maison de la Pensee Française to see Picasso's latest. Most of the canvases were slightly more rakish versions of pictures Picasso had painted before. He had splashed on his oils thicker and brighter than ever; some of his nudes had developed a disconcerting habit of projecting their faces onto stark white islands above their multicolored and bulbous torsos...
Starting with "every hope of working out a solution," McCloy would find his British and French, opposite numbers in a similar mood. General Sir Brian Robertson, now to be in high commissioner's mufti, has been firm and unruffled as British military governor. Scholarly, 62-year-old Andre François-Poncet, Ambassador to Berlin from 1931 to 1938, is one of those surprisingly numerous Frenchmen who want Germany as a good neighbor rather than as a chained foe. He has written: "With a little imagination, a little courage and good will, the problem of Germany can be solved...