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European NATO? After his failure at Brussels, Mendès had flown directly to Britain. Convinced that EDC would be killed by the French National Assembly, he hoped to enlist British support for his own alternative: a larger, looser European alliance in which Britain might participate. Over lunch, with Churchill and Eden, Mendès explained that he would keep some of the features of EDC-for instance, the plan for pooling arms production. He argued that his proposal...
...sees fit. There was also a serious question whether France could freely exchange its overseas officers-fighting in Indo-China or tied down in colonial trouble spots-with its own officers in the European Army, without five nations' concurrence. These difficulties had led De Gaulle to demand a looser federation, something like an old-fashioned grand alliance. Germany would get its army more quickly, he said; but down in the fine print, France would run the show...
...since the time of the reformers. Critics compare him with St. Thomas Aquinas, who in the isth century integrated Catholic thought so that theology, philosophy and art are coordinated in one impressive system. Like Aquinas, Tillich has been weaving his religious thought into a broad pattern, but his is looser and more adjustable. As he explains it, "Catholicism deals with these things from the point of view of having the entire truth and the perfect form of life. Protestantism is always learning, without the claim of being itself the Kingdom...
...Churchill was not the man he had been ten years before. His shoulders were rounder; his jowls hung looser beside his bulldog jaws. But his step was still springy, and under his beetling brows his eyes could still smolder and twinkle with their old fire. During the last years of his eclipse, old friends and enemies alike had noticed in Churchill's speech a tendency to slur and meander, but in the heat of this latest campaign, with victory once more within his grasp, the old leader gave no sign of such deterioration...
Originally, G. S. was intended to cater to an older clientele than Columbia College. It offers a B.S. degree which has shifted off its scientific base and become a looser type of B.A. to people who have either matriculated or can show evidence that they will be able to carry on the G. S. course...