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President Eisenhower's mild tone and Russia's conciliatory attitude in the case of the shot-down B-29 (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) were symptoms of a new and cooler temper in the cold war. There were other readings. Sir Winston Churchill's peroration at the Lord Mayor's banquet in London expressed hope that "we might even find ourselves in a few years moving along a broad, smooth causeway of peace and plenty instead of roaming and peering around on the rim of hell." And the Soviet radio celebrated the 21st anniversary of U.S. diplomatic recognition...
...brandymaker in the French town of Cognac, has sold bonds on Wall Street, peddled wine to fur trappers of Hudson Bay, liquidated a Swedish match company and rebuilt a Chinese railroad, served in wartime Washington as a British diplomat (his passport was specially endorsed by "Winston S. Churchill"). But his finest hour came in 1950, when he persuaded French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman to propose the supranational coal-steel pool. "The pooling of coal and steel is but a beginning," Monnet argued. "The union of the peoples of Europe...
...itself. But should she turn to the East, we are lost. For, although there is widespread resentment in Germany over the treatment Russians have inflicted upon deported populations, it is Russia which holds in its hands all that Germany wants : its reunification first, which neither President Eisenhower, nor Sir Winston Churchill, nor M. Mendès-France can give her. One word from the Kremlin, however, could. Germany needs to export towards Eastern Europe, towards Russia, towards China. What would she not do to secure these markets? And even this isn't all, for Russia can offer to Germany...
...Parliament last week, Sir Winston Churchill said it was his understanding that an "undue number" of bomb tests might afflict the earth's atmosphere for 5,000 years. The Japanese, who get radioactivity from both U.S. and Soviet tests, keep watching their rain apprehensively. Last week they reported a radioactive shower which indicated that the Russians have exploded still another "device" somewhere in darkest Siberia...
...Cambridge since the Pogo era. I have been at Harvard for three years now and the undergraduate body has restrained itself remarkably well. Win or lose, I feel this week-end should not be the cause for breaking the admirable precedent these three years have established. Walter R. Winston...