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...found itself face to face with the most fundamental of issues in Europe's tortu ous revival: are national Communist Par ties truly national, or are they Russian pawns in world power politics? If they were Russian pawns, how could the French Communist Party be fitted into the pattern of French democracy...
...interests in China . . . any more extensive rights and privileges or any more favorable treatment than that accorded to Chinese and Chinese interests in the United States. All plans [of the Chinese] foreshadow a trend toward close government control in all industry . . . establishment of an economy somewhere between the Soviet pattern and free enterprise...
This report was in keeping with the pattern of economic agreements already woven around Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Finland. If true in detail, it perhaps explained why the Russians could afford to permit the rise of vigorous political opposition throughout the Soviet sphere (TIME, Nov. 12). But, in itself, no economic scheme could guarantee that the opposition would stay within Russian bounds. The opposition parties had risen under the knouts of fear and want; they might continue to thrive, especially with encouragement...
Looking to public opinion, Congress found little guidance. The nation was in no mood to think hard & straight on another burning issue, or even to hear about it. Although peacetime conscription might forever change the pattern of U.S. life and the size of its national budgets, few citizens jumped on soap boxes or raised angry voices at bars. Congress' mail came chiefly from those organized groups whose opposition had already been discounted: churchmen, educators, labor leaders...
Hopper won the $500 Logan Prize with Hotel Lobby (see cut), in which the pattern of electric light on the tired transients and commonplace interior creates an illusion of a moment stopped in time, turning the genteel lobby into a monument of weariness and melancholy. Born 63 years ago, tall (6 ft. 4 5/8 in.), quiet Edward Hopper started slowly, hit his stride after 40. His plain pictorial statements of what he sees are so authoritatively final that some critics regard him as a U.S. master...