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...French-run Saar government a so-year lease of the Saar coal mines. German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer asked French High Commissioner Andre Frangois-Poncet for a copy of the agreement. François-Poncet obliged. Later Adenauer called the French officials for "clarification" of some points in the document. François-Poncet obliged again...
...State Department last week published a remarkable document. It was one answer to a question which has interested the West since the famous Moscow purge trials of 1936-38, a question which has become increasingly urgent with such postwar trials as that of Hungary's Cardinal Mindszenty, Bulgaria's 15 Protestant leaders and the U.S.'s Robert Vogeler: How do Communist secret police extort "confessions...
...document, issued by the Vatican's Congregation of the Holy Office, was titled Instructions to the Episcopate on the Ecumenical Movement. Its four important points...
...broad-shouldered Father Hartnett scribbled notes diligently while Blanshard talked and, when he got his turn, quickly abandoned his prepared speech to speak off the cuff. The trouble with Blanshard, he said, "is his lack of firsthand knowledge of Catholicism. Reviewers have praised his book for its documentation. Why does he have to document it so much? . . . Because the man does not know the Catholic Church like those of us who are on the inside. It's very much like the foreigner who had never visited the United States, but wrote a book about it from our Constitution...
...Passport to Pimlico" is a British situational comedy designed quite obviously to humor a British public that is sick of rationing and restrictions. An unexploded German bomb suddenly blows up, revealing a treasure cache in which there is a document proving that the borough of Pimlico in London does not belong to Britain. Consequently, police protection, ration cards and other legal instruments become suspended, and the inhabitants, for a few days, are sovereigns unto themselves. Though Stanley Holloway offers some excellent touches as the exofficio mayor of Pimlico, most of the scenes are only moderately amusing to an American audience...