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...masterly" presentation, said Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd. Even Foreign Minister Osten Unden of neutral Sweden spoke up to endorse Dulles' speech, moving one veteran conferencegoer to remark: "Unden is the first Swede to know what side he is on since Charles...
WEST GERMANY, encouraged by the success of a $40 million trade compact signed with Red Bulgaria, announced "direct consultations" with the Kremlin; Ruhr manufacturers dreamed of the good old days when Hitler's Drang nach Osten sent 12% of all German exports off to the East...
...half a century Germany's diplomats and big industrialists, deep in Drang nach Osten (Drive to the East), talked of a Berlin-to-Baghdad railway. Kaiser Wilhelm II rode through the sweltering streets of Damascus one day in 1898 to tell the citizens that Moslems "may rest assured that at all times the German Emperor will be their friend." Hitler took up where Wilhelm II left off: by the time the Nazis invaded Russia, Germany was dominating the markets of Turkey and Iran...
...What is the English system?" Frederick the Great was asked. "The English," he barked, "have no system." That "no system" has been a system in itself. Britain's foreign policy has been dictated not by planned ambition (e.g., Germany with its Drang nach Osten), by preoccupation with a single enemy (e.g., the French fear of the Germans), or frequent declaration of high-minded and distant goals (e.g., the U.S.). British policy has been to keep the sea lanes open, the trade doors open (at least to itself), and to balance world power by chipping away at any state...
Seven Dunster men were elected last night to the Funster's House Committee in the first spring election held by the House. Elected from the Class of 1951 were: Edmund J. Blake, Jr., John F. Freeman, C. Duance Lansverk, and Harold von der Osten. Chosen from the Class of 1952 were: Ralph Bowen, Richard J. Eskind, and Ira H. Peterson...