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...dedicated itself to the task of trying to balance the fiscal-1960 budget, which the President will submit to the new Congress in January. It is a goal that might have to be discarded as irrelevant if the U.S. has to use force to preserve the West's outpost of freedom in Berlin. But meanwhile, the aim of combatting inflation and governmental bloat by balancing the budget is highly relevant to a challenge that confronts the U.S. in the middle of the 20th century: remaining loyal to sound governmental goals and principles while having to cope for years...
...themselves; they dare not risk a free vote. In a decade, 3,000,000 of East Germany's subjects have fled into West Berlin, including in recent months the cream of its technical and professional ranks most needed to carry out Communist plans. Berlin may be an inconvenient outpost for the West to supply, but for the East it is an embarrassing magnet. As a pledge of the West's determination to stay there, Eleanor Dulles, special assistant to the State Department's Office of German Affairs and sister of the Secretary of State, last week described...
This blunt proposal to wipe out freedom's most exposed outpost in Europe set off a flurry of excited headlines. Western diplomats had been expecting some kind of trouble over Berlin. Four days before, at a press conference, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had taken pains to be explicit: "We are most solemnly committed to hold West Berlin-if need be, by military force." London, Paris and Bonn were just as forthright. In West Berlin, citizens inured to crises went their rounds unflustered...
...those of a French novelist. Lucien Auligny is the creation of Author Montherlant (Perish in Their Pride, Pity for Women), who at his gentlest tells nothing less than the bitter truth and at his worst dismisses humanity with a sardonic jeer. Lucien is a lieutenant who commands an oasis outpost in French North Africa. He is not much of a man and not much of a soldier, and boring desert duty with a handful of French and Arab troops is just what is needed to show him up all the way. The catalytic agent that calls his variety of weaknesses...
...contemplatives, a kind of British Brook Farm attached to Imber Abbey, which houses an order of enclosed Anglican nuns. Imber is made up of a rather odd parcel of stuffed hairshirts. They include the son of an old military family, who seems to think of heaven as the last outpost of Empire, a mouse and lion husband-and-wife team, a saintly Good-Humored girl, frozen on the outside, soft on the inside. Finally there is the colony's leader, Michael Meade, a tense scoutmaster type who flounders in the hell of his homosexual impulses...