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...still photograph. When a salesman presents Mario with a balloon, he inflates it and suddenly becomes obsessed with the mystery of what he has done. "If I stop and there's still room inside," he muses, "then I've failed." Ignoring his friends, his mistress (Catherine Spaak) and ultimately himself, Mario gets absorbed in the nonproblem of how much air can be pumped into a balloon before it bursts...
...that gentleman talking so much like a Super-European? Jean Monnet? Paul Henri-Spaak? Not at all. It was none other than the foreign editor of Pravda, the official organ of Russia's Communist Party - a man whose words and ideas could reason ably be expected to reflect the latest thinking and policy ambitions of the Kremlin. Last week, vacationing in The Netherlands, Yuri Zhukov spoke to the Dutch political weekly Haagse Post about what Russia has in mind when it comes to Europe, East or West. His obvious message: After soft-pedaling for the sake...
...initial worldwide reaction indicates that the plan may be backfiring. Many European nations have taken up the cry of Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, who begged the U.S. to "save the world from holocaust" by holding back on the nukes. China has taken a more disturbing step: a week after Wheeler's testimony, Chou En-lai promised to send some of China's new nuclear weapons to Hanoi if necessary...
...East-West relations, says U.S. NATO Ambassador Harlan Cleveland, is still a "fragile flirtation, with the West pitching most of the woo." But NATO nations are acting as if the cold war were over and could never be renewed. They are losing, says Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, NATO's Secretary-General from 1957-1961, "the cement of fear that bound them together." They tend to squabble over everything from their respective troop commitments to control of U.S. nuclear weapons...
...study is all too obvious. In the current climate of bickering, many European nations that cannot agree among themselves still have trouble accepting continued American domination of NATO. The talk runs more and more to a fifty-fifty U.S.European partnership. Such an arrangement would be eminently satisfactory says Spaak. "But it is difficult to bring off The trouble is, a political Europe does not exist, and this is not the fault of the Americans, but of the Europeans...