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...Rome last week statesmen of six European nations assembled in a vast, frescoed hall atop Capitoline Hill. All about them were reminders of the age when Europe all the way from Hadrian's Wall in the south of Scotland to Roman outposts on the Black Sea acknowledged the law of the Caesars. Before them on a damask-covered table lay the latest instruments for reunifying Europe-the treaties that would establish the Western European Common Market and the European Atomic Energy Community...
...statesmen signed-first Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, who presided over the drafting of the treaties, then Christian Pineau of France, Konrad Adenauer of Germany, Antonio Segni of Italy, Joseph Bech of Luxembourg and Joseph Luns of The Netherlands. Hardheaded politicians all, the signers were only too aware that the treaties might yet fail to win ratification in one or another of their parliaments (particularly the French), but even that realization could not dim the drama and promise of the moment. "If we succeed," said Belgium's Spaak, "today will be one of the most important dates...
...perform its duties with entire independence," said the London Times in 1852, "the press can enter into no close or binding alliances with the statesmen of the day. The duty of the journalist is the same as that of the historian-to seek out the truth, above all things, and to present to his readers not such things as statecraft would wish them to know but the truth as near as he can attain it." While U.S. and British newspapers today have more readers than ever in history, many observers on both sides of the Atlantic share a mounting conviction...
Congress, for its part, is likely to take a dim view of both reports, since both call for programs that imply the spending of more money than the President has asked in his 1958 budget-and this sum ($4.4 billion), Capitol Hill statesmen already have made clear, is more than most Congressmen intend to grant...
...NATION Footprints in the Sands The talk of the world's statesmen centered on two small, sun-scorched strips of Middle Eastern territory, and the discussion was phrased in noble concepts-peace, justice, the dignity of man, national interest. Around Gaza, a huddle of houses and hovels and hapless refugees, and the western shore of the Gulf of Aqaba. an obscure waterway commanded by coastal gun positions, the world's great and small nations maneuvered, found areas of agreement, disputed-friends against friends as well as against enemies...