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Mendès, taking the rostrum, said that as a result of the "remorseless campaign" of lies and calumnies conducted by "certain leading persons in France," he had suffered ''deep humiliation" when negotiating with allied statesmen in London. "I will not submit to this usury," he said. "The question which faces you tonight is . . . does the government have your confidence as patriots and Deputies?" The vote: 287 to 240 in favor of Mendès, his smallest majority...
...world's generals and statesmen, the radioactive "fallout" from nuclear explosions is a grave worry for the future. For scientists who date ancient objects by Carbon 14. it is already a serious nuisance and threatens to get worse. Southwestern laboratories near the Nevada atom-bomb testing ground have found it impossible to use Carbon 14; there is too much competing radioactivity in their vicinity. Even on the Eastern seaboard, Carbon 14 work at the University of Pennsylvania has often been stopped by a radioactive cloud drifting slowly overhead. The "background radiation" gets so strong that the voice of Carbon...
...four days the two statesmen reached agreement on most major points, ended the conferences with mutual expressions of satisfaction and a joint rejection of Russia's proposed conference. On a few items there was no accord: Dulles, for example, firmly refused to commit U.S. military equipment for European defense to an international arms control agency; for his part, Mendès could not promise that U.S. matériel would not be used in putting down the North African violence. One major item-U.S. aid for South Viet Nam-was postponed until after General Lawton Collins, the special...
Those who found a cooler temperature in Russia might merely be misreading the thermometer. But there was an easily chartable reason why the West felt better. At Paris the West had learned that paralysis in fear of Soviet displeasure was not a policy. At Paris the West's statesmen had moved boldly for their own united defense, and then looked up to await Russia's reaction with the calm of men who had done what they...
...present danger of war, Europe responded to U.S. exhortation, but it does not respond similarly to alarms about Communism. Europeans have lived for centuries with neighbors who are implacably hostile and intent on destroying their way of life. Yet when an uninterested Europe let EDC go down, Western European statesmen saw with sudden clarity that something had to be done-that peace ultimately depends on strength...