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...abortive EDC was knocked out before it started. NATO is basically, in the view of most of its members, a device to obtain an American guarantee of their borders, but if it were ever put to a military test, the virtual uselessness of most of its component elements would quickly be demonstrated. The ruin of United States foreign policy by the collapse of the EDC scheme should be a final demonstration that collective security is a myth. This is a lesson that needs to be learned by the government and people of the United States. It needs to be learned...
...members of the U.S. Senate refer to one another as gentlemen. But, what with the industrial revolution, the westering course of empire and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, the Senate has seen the virtual extinction of gentlemen in the 19th-century sense of the word. Most of the Senate's gentlemen (and there are some distinguished ones) were made, not born. One of the last Senators to be born an esquire, Burnet Rhett Maybank, 55, died last week of a heart attack...
...French are quite sure that an "agonizing reappraisal" by the U.S. will not result in the Americans' abandoning Europe. On the other hand, the virtual end of EDC leaves for Europe no vigorous forward step, no policy of the future, no high hope that can be immediately and practically furthered. Germany will (somehow) be rearmed; France will (perhaps) survive her economic and colonial troubles. The Communists will (possibly) not make spectacular gains. But all this is containment at best, and the Eisenhower Administration is committed to something better than containment...
...French blunt enough to be understood throughout his empire, Napoleon Bonaparte raised Jacques-Louis David to the heights. The Emperor's "first painter" had tasted glory before: a tradesman's son, he took part in the French Revolution, happily sketched victims going to the guillotine and became virtual art dictator of the republic under Robespierre. After Robespierre's downfall, he spent seven months behind bars. In 1804, the year of Napoleon's decree, David was 56 and a bit tired of ups and downs. Still, the emperor could not have made' a better choice...
...economic structure upon which Government finance must rest. If, for example, the support of economic research makes it possible for both business leadership and Government to ... sustain a high and steady national production, the benefit to the public purse is obvious. It is even more obvious that the virtual elimination of yellow fever, the sharp reduction in malaria and hookworm, have direct economic benefits . . . The Rockefeller Foundation and the General Education Board...