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...strain of the cold war brought hesitations and serious arguments to the Western Alliance. The dawning of the thermonuclear age, with its talk of megaton bombs (equal to 1,000,000 tons of TNT), cast great and sudden doubt on the validity of the thinking and the plans of statesmen and diplomats and soldiers. Both sides were caught in a sort of pause, to re-examine and to retool. It was in this atmosphere of confusion, holding back and reassessment that the unhesitant, unconfused, unswerving re-emergence of West Germany made its mark...
...Christmas message to the world, Pope Pius XII called upon the statesmen of Europe to set about "forming the continental union of its peoples . . . Why continue to hesitate? The end is clear, the needs of nations are obvious to all. If anyone asks in advance for an absolute guarantee of success, the answer is that there is a risk, but a necessary one; a risk, but in keeping with present possibilities; a reasonable risk...
...statesmen of its 13 North Atlantic allies assembled in Paris, the U.S. this week spoke with measured bluntness. Unless the French Assembly acts within a few months to approve the European Army, said U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, there will be "an agonizing reappraisal" by the U.S. of its basic policy in Europe...
...E.S.T.), on one of the biggest television hookups ever arranged. Called "The Man of the Year Revue," it will originate from NBC-TV in New York and will be telecast over more than a hundred stations. The program will focus on the newsmakers of this year, the statesmen, scientists, soldiers, the heroes and the villains who made the good and bad news, the history and gossip of 1953. In addition, the Man of the Year Revue program will bring before the television cameras top Broadway stars and other newsworthy figures in such fields as politics, science and sports...
Once upon a time, when statesmen wrote their own speeches and authored their own autobiographies (or at least left that impression), a historian felt pretty sure that he could take a man at his word. Nowadays, complains Historian Ernest R. May in the American Scholar, things are tougher. The modern biographer can no longer be sure just what part ghost and what part flesh his subject...