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ALFRED MANESSIER, 43, sometime architect from Picardy, an abstractionist (he calls his painting "supra-rational") who uses colors that glow like Rouault's. Like Rouault, Manessier underwent a religious crisis which he resolved in a brief retreat to a Trappist monastery. Manessier's subsequent work has often had a kind of vaulted Gothic mysticism...
...Europe already struggling in choppy economic seas, the United States has suddenly added a flood of new problems. Foreign offices last week learned that the Senate Appropriations Committee will give no further loans to the European Coal and Steel Community. Aided since its inception by large U.S. grants, the supra-national agency set up to co-ordinate the heavy industries of several countries will now receive nothing. But curtailing the funds does not hurt Europealone; it also weakens United States plans for bolstering continental defense...
...such U.S. meddling that almost caused the defeat of Italy's DeGasperi and so embarrassed Germany's Adenauer when the State Department openly supported the two men in elections last year. And in the case of Mendes-France, it could easily intensify French nationalistic opposition to any sort of supra-national alliance...
...support, the French National Assembly must ratify the EDC treaty. Not only did the idea of EDC spring up in France, but the French recently stated that they would permit Germany to rearm only if the German forces were part of a European, not a national army. Such a supra-national force will come into existence only if the French will it. Today, no single European state can act as a third force powerful enough to deter Soviet aggression. If a balance of power is possible in the hydrogen age, it can come only through a close union...
...befriend liberty in a relative way; i.e. by granting the liberty (within the limits of law) to all in accord with us; Thus, in opposing communism as such, we are also a tyranny, and thus cannot pretend to represent true liberty in the first place (e.g. in being as supra-liberal minded; as the CRIMSON, so as to exclude opposed views...