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Made-in-England. The man chosen to "do something" was Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. With two aides Eden set out in an R.A.F. plane on a "Cook's tour" (the Foreign Office code name for his trip) of the six EDC nations. Starting at Brussels, where he and the Benelux foreign ministers reached "complete agreement" on a method of rearming the Germans, Eden flew on to Bonn where Chancellor Adenauer was waiting at the airport. This week Eden flies to Rome and Paris, peddling a made-in-England solution: German "adherence" to NATO, with "adequate safeguards...
...Fall of a Titan, by Igor Gouzenko. A powerful fiction account of the death of Maxim Gorki, by the famed ex-code clerk turned novelist (TIME, June...
When they are shown over state factories, the trade union delegates might well ask their interpreters to construe the new code of labour discipline. It forbids workers to talk or otherwise waste time in working hours, to arrive late or "stroll around"; it requires them to try to overfulfil their norms; and the last eight of its 22 sections are devoted to punishments. Workers, says this code, should be made to apologise for their mistakes publicly; if their products are defective, up to one-third of their wages will be deducted. There is, of course, no right to strike...
READY for the President's signature this week was the bill that he had called his program's "cornerstone": a painstaking rewriting of the Internal Revenue Code. New York Republican Daniel Reed, who as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee had more to do with the making of the bill than any other man in Washington, proudly declared that it was "the first overall revision of our tax laws which has ever been undertaken...
...Fall of a Titan, by Igor Gouzenko. The powerfully fictionalized decline and death of Maxim Gorki, with sidelights on Soviet man, by the famed ex-code clerk turned novelist (TIME, July...