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...continentals were not convinced that "austerity" would take root on the mainland. Led by France's Robert Schuman, they made it clear that they favored a softer way of life (sometimes called "Beneluxury" because the Benelux countries, particularly Belgium, like it so much), with a high volume of more or less free European trade in all directions and relatively heavy purchases of consumer goods. "Cripps," one observer explained, "took the line of the husband whose wife is spending too much money, and who favors a reduction in her allowance. Schuman took the line that the husband should earn more...
...Figures that symbolize evil, dissolution and death are either beautiful or hypnotic; ordinary grownups are scornfully and crudely caricatured. All this involves a good deal of hectic overwriting. Truman Capote's first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms (TIME, Jan. 26, 1948), won loud praise from a few critics, softer praise from some better ones. He is certainly one of the most talented writers lately out of school, but his future would look wider if he could break away from the overripe magnolia and do more work on bread & meat material. His publishers, who have been selecting rather tender jacket...
...Would move in the direction of a softer policy toward Russia...
...series of recent statements and events in the U.S., especially Truman's appointment of Dean Acheson as Secretary of State, led Western Europeans to assume that U.S. policy toward Russia would become softer. The assumption was wispy; nobody knew whether U.S. policy would soften or not. But the European reaction to the assumption was real. Much of the recent stiffness went out of the man-on-the-street's backbone...
...support to an article in LIFE last week by Columnist Jay Franklin, who had written campaign speeches for Truman. Franklin (speaking for himself and specifically not for LIFE) had asserted that the President was preparing to swing away from the For-restal-Marshall-Lovett-Vandenberg policy to a softer policy toward the Russians. That article, said Truman sharply, is absolutely without foundation, in fact, in nearly every instance and every paragraph...