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Then, in 1938, the Reich was ready to lead Austria home. As the story of the Anschluss was retold in court, many a spectator in the press gallery-remembering the enthusiasm with which most Austrians had hailed Hitler's motorized legions, and the indifference with which most western statesmen had watched the annexation-wondered why this should now be considered a crime. As the story unfolded, they realized how the deceitful cynicism of beerhall Machiavellis had corrupted Austria into accepting annexation...
...that the people of Europe have endured and will endure even more in the future. The thoughts of the common man & woman are enumerated again & again with clarity. Let us have more of these most interesting articles. After some of the vague, incoherent explanations by some of the world statesmen and experts on such matters, this article is like a cool shower of rain on a parched field in the summertime to my confused thoughts pertaining to the European problem...
...changing world of the atom, everything suddenly changed. Statesmen strove to raise the atomic debate from the depths of frightened nationalism to the heights of a new internationalism. Two British spokesmen, Winston Churchill and Ernest Bevin (see FOREIGN NEWS) strove to bend that internationalism to the uses of a strengthened Anglo-American power alignment, and Clement Attlee tried to sell both ideas to Harry Truman (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...been noisier than their British brothers. But all had one characteristic in common: evangelically sure that something must be done, they were lost when they faced the political questions of what to do and how to do it. The atom, as Churchill and Bevin said, had not relieved statesmen of the responsibility for doing statesmen's work...
...Marshall, to say less flamboyantly that "there appear to be no short cuts to a better world." Two nights and 39 speeches later, the 14th annual New York Herald Tribune Forum on Current Problems had done its duty by its solemn theme, "Responsibility of Victory." Four Cabinet members, statesmen of a half-dozen nations, scientists, generals and spokesmen for plain people-ranging from a German P.O.W. to Cartoonist Bill Mauldin-had had their...