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...insider odds are that Kearns will make little headway. Dillon carries a lot more prestige than Kearns, both within the Administration and on Capitol Hill. During last spring's hearings on the Administration's reciprocal trade bill, Kearns's rough-edged stubbornness so annoyed Ways & Means committeemen that there was talk of formally expelling him from the hearing room. When Dillon replaced Kearns as the Administration spokesman, the stalled bill glided through the committee with ease. But Kearns has an influential friend on Ways & Means: Louisiana's Hale Boggs, chairman of the foreign-trade subcommittee...
Even if Soviet forces were withdrawn to Russia's own borders, they would remain within relatively easy striking distance of all Central Europe. Furthermore, since Germany is not Austria, the idea of a permanently neutralized Germany is almost certainly illusory. "There is no precedent in history," notes former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, "for the successful insulation of a large and vital country situated, as Germany is, between two power systems and with ambitions and purposes...
...they looked over Nkrumah's guest list, some London officials dubbed the affair "a conference of conspirators," and the Paris press was openly gloomy about the future of France's former territories, two more of which-the rich Ivory Coast and little Dahomey-last week chose autonomy within the French community. Said Le Figaro solemnly: "A grim race is joined between the French-African community and the countries who swirl in the orbit of 'positive neutralism...
...among the leaders of France's former territories, there are vast differences about where they should be heading. The eccentric Abbé Fulbert Youlou, Premier of the new Republic of Congo is not a man to want to join a federation that may cut down his own power within his present preserve. The abbe's more statesmanlike neighbor to the north, Strongman Barthelemy Boganda, of the former French territory of Ubangi-Shari -now grandly called the Central African Republic* fears that in the fragmentation of French Equatorial African states, the young republics might fall victim...
...shouting, "Olele! Olele! The Abbé has won!" The abbé-Brazzaville's round, smiling Mayor Fulbert Youlou, 41-had just returned from the French Middle Congo's capital city of Pointe-Noire. There the Assembly had turned the territory into an autonomous republic within the French community and named abbé Youlou its new Premier...