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European Defense Community. Long after most European statesmen had written off the EDC plan for an international European army, Dulles continued to plug for it. His stubbornness began to bear fruit last month when West Germany showed its growing strength and political stability by re-electing Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, a strong EDC partisan. France, which had blocked EDC, suddenly reawakened to the danger that the U.S. might insist on independent German rearmament if EDC did not materialize. Result: the French government seemed to be moving toward acceptance of EDC, and prospects for a West German contribution to the defense...
...with the old Cavalier conviction: "I could not love thee, Dear, so much, Loved I not Honor more." Explicitly, his duty is to keep making the world safe for the kind of love he lives for. Rainier rails at some of the practical aspects of such duties. "Oh you statesmen of bad breath!" he declaims. "How dare you spend hours in your councils listening to anything that is not a sound of a lover's kiss...
...fall leaves turned gold, the swallows arrowed south, and the world's statesmen came back from the beaches and the mountains to the cares of a new season. The cares were still dismally the same-they had taken no vacation-but the atmosphere around them was changed...
...Saturday-night radio talks, had taken a moment out before his discussion of "An English Benedict Arnold-George Monk" for a special announcement: "Before I begin this week's broadcast I wish to convey to my listeners the desire to obtain two statues of Virginia Revolutionary statesmen and heroes that would fit into alcoves six feet high." Behind his cryptic appeal was a plan to embellish the wall of the "Nathan Hale Court," which fronts the Tribune Building. Within the week a factory offered to make plaster statues of any historical figures the colonel cared to name, but that...
...have been preoccupied with meeting deadlines an opportunity to broaden their perspective by means of a coordinated program of reading, study and informal discussion." Richardson will study at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs, and commute to New York for council meetings, symposiums with visiting statesmen, and library research...