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...Blackmail," cried Washington's U.S. Senator Henry Jackson. "Nuclear blackmail," said London's News Chronicle. Across the Atlantic world, statesmen sighed and prepared to man their battle stations. France's Charles de Gaulle was demanding a place in the front rank again...
...world's statesmen none is more famed for steely determination than Konrad Adenauer, the autocratic octogenarian who has ruled West Germany for the past ten years. When Adenauer two months ago decided to turn the West German chancellorship over to a younger man, his countrymen assumed that that was that. But last week there was colossal confusion as the world learned that Adenauer, too, can change his mind. See FOREIGN NEWS, An Old Man's Impulse...
...sits moodily apart. He wriggles on the sofa, he crosses and uncrosses his legs, he folds his arms and glares around the room. At intervals,' with obvious effort, he joins in a conversation, only to relapse into silence. At last the agreement is ready, for signature. The four statesmen sign. Three look satisfied that they have done the right thing. But Hitler scratches his signature as if he were being asked to sign away his birthright." At the last moment fate tried feebly to avert the inevitable: the signing was delayed "when it was discovered that the pompous inkstand...
...Look. I want to get back at a lot of people. If I drop dead before I get to the Zs in the alphabet, you'll know how I hated to go"). Chips, plugs and crusades burdened his shoulders; he told Presidents how to run the U.S. and statesmen how to run the world...
While the statesmen in Geneva debated the future of Europe, less celebrated men were more effectively shaping it. In the drab industrial city of Essen last week, 18 young French labor leaders were learning at firsthand how labor-management relations are handled in the coal fields and steelworks of the Ruhr. In Paris four European airlines-Air France, Alitalia, Belgium's Sabena and West Germany's Lufthansa-announced plans to integrate their schedules, maintenance and foreign-sales organizations under the name "Air Union." And in a West German poll, only 37% of the citizens questioned by the Gallup...