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...fact. The running feud between Johnson and State Secretary Dean Acheson (TIME, Sept. 11) had become so bitter that defense planning was being hampered, and no one seemed to be able to get it going smoothly. Strictly as a family affair, Harry Truman was reportedly beginning to see the quarrel as an either/or proposition; in such a situation, once recognized, there was no doubt which one would have to go. It would be Louis Johnson...
...Schuman Plan for the integration of Europe's coal & steel industries was similarly threatened. When the Consultative Assembly voted a set of resolutions designed to give the proposed control authority more power, the British Labor group abstained. The quarrel between the British and French on the Schuman proposal flared up again when France's Paul Reynaud, shaking his finger at British Socialist Delegate Hugh Dalton, said: "We are told: 'Go ahead, you French, and build the House of Europe. If it is comfortable we will move into the room you have reserved for us. If it collapses...
Shotgun v. Pistol. Walton Walker is not a colorful prima donna, or an affable diplomat, or a profound strategist, or an egoist with a flair for drama. Military historians will probably not quarrel lengthily over his capabilities; psychologists will not find him an enigma. In World War II he fought as Patton wanted him to; in Korea, he will fight as MacArthur wants him to-however much retreats and holding actions may go against his grain. If ordered to hold, he will stand and fight to the last man, including Walton Walker. He is, in every sense of the phrase...
...Socialists insisted that the return of King Leopold III to Belgium would mean revolution. Socialist Leader Paul-Henri Spaak told Parliament last week: "In a few minutes in the great political quarrel which has divided Belgium for ten years, you are going to win a game. In a few minutes you will have recalled Leopold to the throne and given the signal for disturbances which are going to tear Belgium apart." But Parliament's majority, the Social Christian (Catholic) Party, was stubborn. It had won its absolute majority in the recent election (with a popular vote...
Once Mrs. Alice Fox and Mrs. Katherine Rollo were friendly next-door neighbors, but the friendship didn't last. They started a spite quarrel for reasons that their neighbors in the Long Hill housing development in Waterbury, Conn, never did get clear. The showdown came when Mrs. Fox ran outside to tell Mrs. Rollo a thing or two and, to punctuate her lecture, kicked her in the stomach...