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...stately Rolls-Royce carrying Britain's Ernest Bevin slid in behind Schuman's car. Stalled motorists along the avenue furiously honked their horns. For a breathless moment it looked to fascinated Paris pedestrians as if the four diplomatic cars would become the center of a hopeless traffic jam. But unruffled cops blew their shrill whistles, waved their white batons and the traffic flowed again, as if by magic...
...Foreign Ministers of the U.S., Britain and France last week met in Paris to try to untangle a political and economic traffic jam that was seriously impeding the progress of Western policies in Europe, and there were no traffic cops to help...
Needed: Definition. At the core of the European jam was Germany. The Western powers had never really agreed among themselves on a policy toward the new West German Republic. Within the loose framework of the occupation statute (TIME, April 18), they floundered between a policy that would build up West Germany as soon as possible (which by & large is the U.S. aim); and a suspicious policy of keeping West Germany's sovereignty and industrial potential in stringent check (which is the French aim). Western policy needed new, sharp definition, particularly since the Red puppet state in East Germany...
Both clubs combined to open the program with "Ecce Jam Noctis" by George W. Chadwick, arranged for brass and woodwinds by Walter Piston. The work was very interesting, but it was hampered by the poor playing of members of the Yale hand and singing which was not nearly so polished as that in the rest of the program...
...specially prepared arrangement by Walter Piston, Jr. '24, Naumberg Professor of Music, will highlight the program. Professor Piston has arranged George W. Chadwick's "Ecce Jam Noctis" for male chorus, brass, and woodwind...