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...week's end the Communists inched forward again. The East German government announced that it had taken over from the Russians all border policing, except for allied military traffic in and out of Berlin, which would remain in Russian hands. The battle of strength continued. In any showdown, the West's ultimate power to blockade might make the Russians think twice...
...Deputies at first found it refreshing. But on further consideration, they decided that they did not like Mendès' brand of boldness. "Adventurism," they called it, and dismissed Mendès. Premier Edgar Faure offered them the opposite-a policy of the political carom shot, the showdown avoided, the adroit maneuver, the delicate adjustment. Last week the Deputies of France suddenly discovered that they were no longer amused by Edgar's "cleverness" either. Since in France the Assembly's whim is sovereign, this petulance brought France's government to its knees...
...things going the other way. A trend in the other direction might possibly be started by agreement on the division of the waters of the Jordan River." By nice coincidence, President Eisenhower's special envoy Eric Johnston arrived in Cairo at week's end for showdown talks with Arab leaders on the U.S.-sponsored Jordan Valley development plan, which would provide irrigable land for the resettlement of up to 200,000 refugee Arabs...
...Democrats, posing the alternatives to city voters as well as to the farmers: "We do not believe that American farmers are getting their fair share of America's unprecedented prosperity. We shall continue to explore every possible program which will remedy the inequity . . ." Later he added: "The showdown battle in 1956 will be between those who want to nationalize and socialize basic American institutions and those who prefer the Eisenhower Republican program...
...public power. What needs to be re-examined is how far the Democratic party wants to go in committing itself to government ownership as a principle in national policy. The Democrats are toying openly with ideas of state socialism-they are still the radical party in America-and a showdown on such issues would be a healthy thing to bring about in the 1956 Presidential and Congressional campaign...