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NATO Reorganization. "Fourth," Acheson went on, "agreement was reached by which the return of West Germany to a place ... in the European community can be achieved." In London, Acheson succeeded in clearing away obstacles to the "contractual agreement" that is to govern future relations between Western Germany and the occupation. Negotiations on the "contractual agreement" have hobbled along for a year. The agreement, as Acheson mentioned, is not yet complete and must be ratified by Parliaments...
BRITISH royalty reigns but does not govern. According to a famed British constitutional scholar, Walter Bagehot, Queen Elizabeth II "could disband the army; she could dismiss all the officers . . .she could sell off all our ships-of-war and all our naval stores; she could make a peace by the sacrifice of Cornwall and begin a war for the conquest of Brittany. She could make every citizen in the United Kingdom, male or female, a peer; she could make every parish in the United Kingdom a 'University'; she could dismiss most of the civil servants, and she could...
...Brazil's pressing problems-inflation, transport, oil, agricultural development-has he shown the initiative for which he was once famous. Some Brazilians guessed last week that he is just waiting for the right moment to make himself dictator again. Others say he is trying so hard to govern constitutionally that he lets a disorganized Congress mess up all his measures. But another story heard in Rio is that Getulio, now 68, just does not care any more, that all he really wanted was the vindication of electoral victory...
...exam. Cried one parent last week: "The test gets the child so worked up. My Patricia went out of the house white as a sheet, and couldn't eat any breakfast." Added another: "It's terrible to think that what a boy does at eleven will govern his whole life...
...many called to give rudderless France a new government, the sixth chose to try. Striding crisply into the National Assembly, bespectacled Edgar Faure (pronounced fore) asked to be accepted as Premier. The Deputies, impressed by his agile answers to sharp questions, unexpectedly approved him by a hefty majority (401-to-101). Then he sat down to try to piece together a cabinet, the twelfth to govern France since...