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...implication, a strong Europe-First man and has yet to outline an Asian defense plan as concrete as Bob Taft's. Ike is a believer in the United Nations: "However halting its progress may be, however much its sessions are torn by the jeers and vetoes from one sector, [it] is a visible and working entity-substantial evidence of developing hopes and purposes, an earnest of better things to come...
...which order the weapons. When the economy is on all-out military production, the services know that they must set up priorities between one weapon and another. But in a half-speed mobilization, each procurement officer hopes that the material he wants can be taken out of the civilian sector of the economy, and the services do not get together on priorities. Last week, tired of waiting on the Pentagon, Wilson announced he would set up his own priority system for weapons. These difficulties will not disappear simply by deciding to have more guns, less butter...
...tells you to. All along the front the U.N.'s Joes were pushing ahead of a hypothetical line, afoot and in tanks and aircraft, to fight the enemy because the man had told them to. The chaplain of one U.S. outfit in the west central sector snorted at a question about morale...
Last week, after a brief, pointed correspondence with East Germany's President Wilhelm Pieck, Dr. Itten went to Berlin's Soviet sector. There he solemnly handed his box of trinkets (i.e., priceless Communist relics) over to East Germany's State Art Commission, watched grunting Germans load his precious statues on to a Swiss truck. An "exemplary cultural exchange," announced the art commissar grandly. Dr. Itten did not crack a smile...
Such painstaking investigations, along with whispered conversations and furtive trips to informants in Berlin's Soviet sector, are only a small part of the continuing job of the Bonn bureau. Its more important task, difficult in itself, is the solid reporting of what is now happening in Germany...