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Rainbow-chasing could not actually defend Western Europe against the present eight-to-one armed superiority of Soviet Europe. The real defense, rearmament, inched slowly ahead. For six weeks, the deputies of the twelve-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) had been making plans for joint rearmament with a gap wide enough for a tank to crunch through: they had avoided discussing Germany, though effective European defense without Germany was impossible. When the NATO Foreign Ministers met in London last May, they had been afraid to tackle the vexed subject of rearming Germany. Korea had since changed the situation...
...years since his last retirement, from the post of Assistant Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Armour has passed the time resting and traveling in Europe and Canada. His new appointment filled the most important gap in the United States network of diplomatic missions in Latin America...
Responsible & Wrong. In the tones of a tired Cassandra, Churchill said: "The supreme peril is in Europe. We must try to close the hideous gap on the European front...
...important on defense, and a big question mark so far this year, are the two fullback positions. Last year's All-New England pair, Rick Drake and Mike Scully, have graduated, leaving an important gap to fill...
...oldest (108 years) orchestra, the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, last week came up with a brand new idea. To fill part of the gap between its summer season at Lewisohn Stadium and its Carnegie Hall opening in October, the Philharmonic will play two weeks of four 45-minute shows a day in Manhattan's huge (6,000 seats) Roxy Theater. The first week's program, on a bill which includes Tyrone Power in The Black Rose: Wagner, Prokofiev, Puccini, Mendelssohn, De Falla...