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Last spring, France's René Pleven, then Premier, offered a compromise: a European army of which German contingents larger than "combat teams" could be a part. For five months French, West German, Italian, Belgian and Luxembourg delegates (the British, Dutch and Scandinavians hung back) have been meeting in Paris, trying to transform the Pleven plan into reality...
...France's own René Lacoste, one of the French "four musketeers" (the others: Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet, Jacques Brugnon) who dominated international tennis 1924-29, was the grandfather of all crocodiles. Recalling one match against Lacoste, Bill Tilden remarked: "The monotonous regularity with which that unsmiling, drab, almost dull man returned the best I could hit ... often filled [me] with a wild desire to throw my racket...
Modern medical science has produced scores of wonder drugs and made enormous technical advances. Has it meanwhile been losing the human touch? Yes, says Swiss Dr. René Burnand, who believes it is high time for a return to some forgotten fundamentals...
...Author René Sédillot is a Parisian economist who began his project in 1941 "because I didn't want to write collaborationist articles, and yet didn't want my pen to turn rusty." His book won critics' applause in Paris, sold nearly 100,000 copies in Sweden, was published in London, may soon come out in Argentina and Norway. U.S. readers will find that there is good reason for this success: for all its brevity, Sedillot's history is a bold and breathless tale of suspense...
...faithful TIME reader for 20 years, allow me to praise you for your biographical notes, beginning with France's Premier René Pleven [TiME, Jan. 29] and continuing, in your Feb. 5 issue, with Brazil's President Getulio Vargas. They are marvelous syntheses of unprejudiced, impartial and accurate facts...