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...West Virginia, where the coal industry is in a slump, Democratic Senator Matthew Neely is not worried about offending Eisenhower admirers. Neely tells his campaign audiences, "In 32 years in Washington, I've never seen a more useless President than Dwight D. Eisenhower . . . He's the poorest President the U.S. ever...
...West Germany last week came the first warning of the trouble that can flow from the defeat of EDC. In Schleswig-Holstein, the poorest and most discontented of West Germany's nine states, Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democratic coalition suffered a setback at the polls. Where Adenauer got 47% of the vote last year, his slate last week got only 32%, a drop of 250,000 votes. The opposition Social Democrats, who got 26.5% of the vote last time, actually outdrew the Christian Democrats by 11,000 votes...
...troubles are the fruits of postwar folly. Before she lost her empire in the war, she got rice from Korea, wheat from Manchuria. Now she must import $400 million in food annually to feed her people. Her own rice crop last year was the poorest in 60 years. She has no coking coal of her own; her prewar source of supply, the Chinese mainland, is now shut off. So she imports this coal from the U.S. and elsewhere, at $11 to $17 a ton. She has similar trouble with salt, a staple of her chemical industry, on which the shipping...
...hailed; Britain's Chamberlain, France's Briand and Germany's Stresemann all got Nobel Peace Prizes. For a decade, statesmen spoke glowingly of the "spirit of Locarno." Germans were delighted: "Germany, which two years ago was isolated, spurned beneath the victors' heels, and seemed the poorest ragamuffin in Europe, today . . . becomes a factor of might once more," crowed the Berliner Tageblatt. Reassured by German pledges of good behavior, 1) Britain and France withdrew all occupation forces from the Rhineland, which Germany promised solemnly to leave demilitarized; 2) the League of Nations admitted Germany to membership. Chancellor...
...carried the label. When some of Crosby's political opponents dug up the fact that his own taxable personal-property return for 1952 amounted to $605, his friends pointed out that in his county the average return was only $145, and only $11.68 in the county with the poorest record. Crosby, admitting his share of the general laxness, quipped: "In 1952 I was a candidate for Governor. They should have looked at my returns from three or four years...