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...often before, the seat of trouble lay in France's National Assembly, where Premier René Mayer faced two reservations to the European Defense Community plan. French Socialists, whose support Mayer must have, fear to stand at the side of Germany in the European Army unless Britain stands at the other, i.e., by also becoming a member of EDC; French nationalists, whose support of the Mayer government is equally vital, accept the military wisdom of German rearmament, but reject any arrangement that will tie the bulk of the French army to the troops of other nations...
With pastepot and pencil. René Mayer tried to patch the twain. He and Foreign Minister Georges Bidault hurried across the Channel to see what the British could offer to placate the German-wary French Socialists. Britain stuck to its decision to stay out of EDC, but was willing to promise its "continued full support" to the European Army. And Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden announced that when he visits Washington next week, he will ask the U.S. to join Britain in a pledge extending NATO's 20-year guarantees (which include the stationing of their troops on the Continent...
...built the story up into one of the year's great controversies; it proved particularly timely, as a reminder of past German cruelties, for politicians who oppose a European army in which Germans and Frenchmen will wear the same uniform. The verdict: death for SS Sergeant Georges-René Boos (a Frenchman) and Karl Lenz (a German), sentences from five to twelve years for 18 others, including the Alsatians...
Minutes later, the four-man Swiss sled, a red-nosed quarter-ton of steel, wire and canvas, started its practice run. Brakeman Fritz Stöckli gave a final shove, then hopped on behind his white-sweatered crew: Driver Endrich, Crewmen Aby Gartmann and René Heiland. Runners rattling on the icy course, the sled hit a 50 m.p.h. clip as Endrich steered through the tricky "labyrinth"-a series of 16 intricate curves. Pounding into the Bavarian Curve, a 180° turn with a 15-foot sheer wall of ice where Sweden's Rudolph Odenrich was killed two years...
...René Magritte is likely to agree, at least in part. He lives a simple workaday life in a three-room apartment, puts in four mornings a week transferring what he calls his "dreams" on to canvas, and spends the rest of his time listening to the radio or walking solemnly around Brussels. In five years he has taken only one trip: a short jaunt to Southern France. "There's nothing I want," he says. "If someone offered me $10 million, I'd take it, I suppose. But I don't want the money. I desire nothing...