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Brussels was no one's victory; it was too soon for even its participants to know whose defeat it would be. Adenauer in sisted desperately that EDC is not yet dead. Winston Churchill got into the act, bringing Eden back from vacation, inviting Mendés-France to fly over for lunch. Topic for discussion: the speedy return of sovereignty to West Germany...
...Winston Churchill solemnly told the House of Commons [last month] that "tremendous changes have taken place in the whole strategic position in the world which make the thoughts which were well founded and well knit together a year ago utterly obsolete." What the great old man was referring to here is the fact that the hydrogen bomb has turned out to be an even more hideous and destructive weapon than was planned and expected. It has now been discovered that in certain special cases the heat and blast may be no more than the percussion cap of a much larger...
...evidence shows that this [fallout] is a new thing. The newness is proved by Sir Winston's assertion that these "tremendous changes" occurred within the last twelve months, which means that these changes were not produced by our first H-bomb test in 1952. The inference is obvious, therefore, that the difference between the new and the other absolute weapons is that the new bomb produces a cloud of fairly heavy particles. And these, being fairly heavy, fall out immediately and locally while they are still dangerous to life. To all this, only one point needs to be added...
Died. Albert Bailey ("Ab") Walker, 44, indicted in 1932 with Singer Libby Holman (Moanin' Low) Reynolds as the hypotenuse in the alleged triangle killing of Tobacco Heir Zachary Smith (Camels) Reynolds, later released (with Libby) because of insufficient evidence; of cancer; in Winston-Salem...
...together a year ago utterly obsolete . . . Merely to try to imagine in outline the first few weeks of a war under conditions about which we did not know when this session commenced . . . would, I am sure, convince honorable gentlemen of the obsolescence of the base . . ." In other words, what Winston Churchill had learned about the H-bomb on his trip to Washington had changed his mind...