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...they saw Hitler's envoys make their cynical pledge of peace with France. Last week, the cupids watched over another scene of hope; the Foreign Ministers of France, Italy, West Germany and Benelux were signing the Treaty Establishing the European Defense Community, the military equivalent of the Schuman coal-and-steel pool. When (and if) ratified, it will weld 400,000 armed Germans into a supranational European Army, responsible to NATO's new Commander Matt Ridgway. Ancient Dream. At 5:12 p.m., the six Foreign Ministers, flanked by the U.S.'s Dean Acheson and Britain...
...sharp questions to unmask the insincerity of the Russian proposals. How free would elections be? Would the Reds release political prisoners, restore civil rights, allow anti-Communist parties to organize and campaign? Would a free and united Germany, Russian-style, be free to join such Western alliances as the Schuman coal & steel plan and the European Army? Before committing itself to Big Four talks, said McCloy, the West "wants firm evidence, firm facts. We have all suffered too much -Germans included-to jeopardize the progress we have made...
...Saar (TIME, Feb. 11), 76-year-old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer abruptly canceled further talks with the French; they had been unable, he said, to grasp "the European idea" and had double-crossed him. His action, in turn, jeopardized the political future of France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, who has trouble enough trying to persuade his countrymen" to bargain with Germans...
...commentator and author, attacked the conception that independent, rearmed Germany and Japan will buttress the position of the West in the current struggle with the Soviets. Various other aspects of American foreign policy bore the critical analysis of Dr. James Phinney Baxter, III, President of Williams College; Frederick L. Schuman, professor of Government at Williams; and John Crider, commentator and columnist, at the opening forum of the All-College Conference last night...
...Schuman stated that every arms race inevitably leads to war and that, indeed, it may further the cause of Communist expansion by providing good propaganda ammunition for the Reds...