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...turned on point 2, the rearmament of Germany. Instead of telling the European nations what the conditions of defense had to be, the U.S. requested agreement on rearming Germany and on other actions unwelcome to some of the Europeans. From France's Robert Schuman and some others, the U.S. got the inevitable answer: let's wait a while...
That did not mean that the U.S.'s Acheson, Britain's Bevin or France's Schuman were overlooking Asia, where men were paying with their lives for past blunders -notably the blunders of the U.S. Yet there was no denying that the final issues between East and West were most likely to be resolved where East meets West, in Europe's industrial heartland...
This week as the NATO ministers assembled at New York's Waldorf-Astoria (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), France was still reluctant to face reality. The U.S. move to increase its ground forces in Germany by five or more divisions was "most pleasing" to Paris. But French Foreign Minister Maurice Schuman put in the inevitable French warning on German rearmament. He wanted any rearming of the West Germans to wait a while. Said Schuman: "There is an obvious desire for all to see a line of defense as far east as possible for Europe. But the Allies must have priority. When...
...control, preponderance would pass to the Reds. Even with the German industrial capacity still in Western hands, there were calamitous dangers in the present situation of free Europe. The free nations had scarcely made a beginning at integrating their industrial efforts. France's bravest postwar gesture, the Schuman Plan to unite Western European coal and steel production, was bogging down in nationalist jealousies...
Meanwhile, one of the most vociferous converts to dianetics, Williams College's cause-chasing Professor Frederick L. Schuman, protested in a letter to the New Republic against an unfavorable review of Founder Hubbard's book, Dianetics. Snorted the editors in a one-paragraph reply: "While Dr. Schuman is a distinguished authority on political science, we do not feel that on issues involving psychiatry he is entitled to any more respect than any other layman. His suggestion that no one should write about dianetics without having experienced it seems to us like saying that...