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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lost the War? Last week, Chancellor Adenauer formally committed his country to the new Western policy of making something good of the Germans. In a quiet, unceremonious business session atop the Petersberg, overlooking the new German capital at Bonn (pop. 110,000), Adenauer and the Western Allied High Commissioners initialed the "protocol of agreements" which put into force the decisions of the Paris Foreign Ministers' Conference (TIME, Nov. 28). Next day, Adenauer submitted the protocol to the Bundestag (Lower House). The new German Parliament forthwith proved one thing: it was no rubberstamp Reichstag...
Hastie received an interim appointment to the bench of the Third District Court of Philadelphia. Although the appointment by President Truman is subject to confirmation at the next session of the Senate, Hastie sat with the full bench yesterday on his first case...
Vishinsky had offered the Russian plain in his first speech before this session of the U.N. in September, after he had belabored the U.S. and Britain for trying to start an atomic war. It proposed: 1) that the assembly condemn "preparations for war" being made by the two western nations; 2) that the assembly outlaw the atomic bomb as a weapon; and 3) that the assembly request the Big Five (U. S., Britain, France, China, and Russia) to make a new non-aggression pact...
Then the newlyweds climbed into the shiny black Oldsmobile convertible which Barkley had given his bride as a wedding present, and headed for Barkley's old Kentucky home (The Angles) and points south. They would be back in Washington, said the Veep, in time for the second session of the 81st Congress. In the meantime, "We are just going to strike out, stop when we please, where we please. Where we are going may not be a military secret, but it's a romantic...
...French Assembly next week which could easily topple France's shaky cabinet, he kept Premier Bidault constantly informed of the trend of talk at the Quai d'Orsay, and once Acheson and Bevin had to wait while Schuman rushed off to brief an emergency cabinet session. The Reds promptly set up a howl that Schuman was selling France down the Rhine. The Communist L'Humanité gibed: "Serons! nous cocacolonisés? [Will we be Coca-Colonized...