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...cold war is a good war. It is the only war in history where the question of destruction doesn't enter into it at all. Everything we are doing is building up. We have rebuilt Europe, not destroyed...
Since the war, the most persistent block to integration of continental European economics has been the French fear of German economic supremacy, once German industry was rebuilt. France has been adamant in her demands that Britain must enter into any European economic union to balance out the German industrial power. Therefore her offer last week to put all German and French steel and coal production under a "joint high authority" came as a surprise to everyone, especially to the British...
Japanese are used to catastrophe. Fifty percent of the matchstick houses rebuilt since the war have since burned down. And the people of Atami are known all over Japan for their cheerfulness...
Those who think the Jewish community can be rebuilt on a secular rather than religious basis, Author Herberg warns, are deluded. A return to religious essentials is necessary, and it will call for "an earnest effort to seek out and gather the sparks of faith hidden among the fragments of contemporary Jewish existence. It involves the return of the rabbi from his present functions as administrator, political leader and popular lecturer, to his earlier and more authentic role of religious teacher and counselor. Most of all, it implies a synagogue interested primarily not in making itself dominant as an organization...
...Henri Le Gay, the port director of Rouen, likes to climb the hill north of his city on clear days and look down on the port. Last summer he took some Americans to the top of his hill and told them that "without your aid, we could never have rebuilt this city...