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Foreign Policy. Congress went all the way with the President. The Senate gave Ike authority to intervene in the area of Formosa. Overwhelmingly approved were the treaties for German rearmament, the end of Austrian occupation, and mutual defense with Southeast Asia and Nationalist China. Congress also gave the President strong bipartisan support on his journey to Geneva...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RECORD OF THE 84TH: ACHIEVEMENTS | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...peaceful co-existence [Britain] will be of dwindling value in the eyes of our American friends, who will also very quickly revert to their traditional distrust of colonial empires. Moreover, our economy has been more disturbed than any other by rearmament, and our trade more damaged by strategic embargoes. Both will need drastic reorganization if peace has indeed broken out. In brief, the economic and political independence which we forfeited as a result of the cold war is likely to be forced upon us very soon. In an era of American-Russian understanding, we shall have to fend for ourselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES: SECOND THOUGHTS ON GENEVA | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

Perceiving that Adenauer was getting only the faintest support from his own side, Ollenhauer got bolder and bolder. Even to make a start on rearmament would hinder the possibility of a settlement at Geneva, said Ollenhauer. Der Alte was visibly angry when he followed Ollenhauer to the speaker's stand. "I had hoped," said he, "to discuss this problem with the Social Democratic faction in a democratic fashion. I have been disappointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Not So Fast | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

Horses & History. As a cavalry officer, he became the Horse Prince, and after serving in the war as an army major, he briefly earned the title of the Red Prince, because he echoed the Communist line against rearmament. He was the first of his family to get a driver's license. He became an outspoken apostle of the Yankee square dance, of birth control (said he after the birth of his fourth child: "It is not easy to practice what you preach"), and of the Crown Prince's right to marry as he chooses ("The Crown Prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Learned One | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

...Pinay told Dulles and Britain's Harold Macmillan another story of how easily Molotov changes hats. In France, on the way to the U.S., Pinay reported, Molotov had also been a regular sunshine boy. During a conversation with Pinay. he had smilingly suggested that in view of German rearmament it would be wise for France to cultivate her relations with Russia. France found that difficult. Pinay replied, because of the Kremlin's strong support of French Communists and their efforts to undermine French democracy. Instantly, the Russian's amiability melted, and it was the old, cynical Molotov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Vyacheslav Dalevich Karnegiev | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

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