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MAN OF THE YEAR?
Time's Choice of Dulles

Clearly Debatable

F OR THE second year in a row, Time maga-
zine's choice for the Man of the Year is{
debatable (Understatement of the Year).
Last year, German Chancellor Adenauer was
chosen over Sen. McCarthy though the latter
certainly had the most to say during the year
and caused his "ism" to be felt throughout the
world.
Secretary of State Dulles, Time's Man of
1954, said a lot last year, certainly, and no one
can say that he didn't get around fast enough.
But in reading the magazine's reasons for so
honoring Dulles, one can't help feeling that it
is more like a toastmaster saying to his audi-
ence "now let's give him a round of applause
to show we support him" than anything else.
DULLES' INFLUENCE was felt, granted. He
was at many conferences, doing much-
needed coordination, mediation and such. But
at the same time, the Secretary's occasional
hasty remarks led to some embarassing mo-
ments.
The foundations for the Western European
Union were laid by Dulles and this is doubt-
lessly worthy of much credit. (Dulles has been
more successful in his dealings with Europe
than with Asia). But does it make him the Man
of the Year?
WE CAN especially ask this question when
we think of France's Mendes-France. He
managed to close, even in France's defeat, the
war in Indo-China. He was present at France's
abandoning the EDC, but still managed to
hold onto his post as Premier. And he brought
his country to approve the new WEU, and re-

mains in office. His work was felt throughout
the world.
From Asia we have Indo-China's Ho Chi Minh
who brought the Reds to victory in that coun-
try at the Geneva peace conference at which
he came to the fore as Asia's man of the year.
And in the background we had with us, as
usual, Russia's Malenkov who didn't say much
but certainly had his finger in all the world's
pies.
SINCE THE Man of the Year should be that
person who had the most influence on the
world scene, it does seem that while the world
was quite aware of Dulles, there was greater
awareness of these other men.
In the cover story the list of events that
happened during the year, or the problems that
were solvedl, were credited directly or by im-
plication to Dulles, but certainly some of them,
like the solving of the Suez question was much
nMore in the hands of others than in Dulles'.
ANY CHOICE for the Man of the Year is
likely to be given an arbitrary one in most
cases. But in the case of Time magazine a
more than usual interest and prestige has be-
come attached to the individuals chosen. Those
picked are often referred to as the Man of the
Year in the press and in other periodicals.
Time's selectioon always stands as a starting
point in reviewing the events of the year.
We cannot belittle the Secretary's accom-
plishments, but except to show support, there
should be no reason to enlarge them. It was
"nice" that Time expressed its support of Dul-
les, but there still remains the question of who
was the Man of 1954?
--Harry Strauss

"A Fellow Can't Remember To Take Everything"
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TODAY AND TOMORROW:
Republican Loss Lets
Ike 'R ise A boePry


Reece Report Shows Need
To Curb Investigators

T WO charges have been leveled against tax
exempt foundations, which have grown in
number from 200 in 1930 to more than 5,000
in 1954. One charge is that the foundations
have been formed to avoid taxes. The more
serious charge, of a political nature, is that
in giving grants for studies in politics, eco-
nomics, psychology, racial problems, educa-
tion and family problems, the foundations
have aided "un-American" and "subversive"
movements. Principal targets for these at-
tacks have been the Rockefeller and Carnegie
foundations and the Ford sponsored Fund for
the Republic.
After examining several thousand question-
naires and listening to extended testimony, a
special House committee headed by the late
Eugene Cox of Georgia gave the foundations
a clean bill of health on the second charge.
The majority report of the Cox inquiry, re-
leased in 1952, reported that "the few in-
stances where foundation funds have gone to
the support of the Communist line were in-
advertent and not Intentional." The Cox Com-
mittee praised the foundations highly for their
explorations in the field of social sciences.
N APRIL; 1953, however, Rep. B. Carroll
Reece (R-Tenn.) charged the foundations
with a "diabolical conspiracy" to promote so-
cialism and managed to get himself appointed
chairman -of a new committee to investigate
foundations.
The Reece Committee released a majority
report the Monday before Christmas. It was
signed by Rep. Reece, Jesse P. Wolcott (R-
Mich.) and Angier Goodwin (R-Mass.). The
two Democrats on the committee, Rep. Wayne
Hays and Mrs. Gracie Pfost filed a minority
report.
Essentially, the Reece Committee's majority
report is an insult to public intelligence. It is
a product of frenzy, hysteria, anti-intellectual-
ism and legal and judicial know-nothingism.
Messrs. Wolcott, Reece and Goodwin have come
up with a vindicitive, unsubstantiated smear--
but in the end it will not be foundations that
are smeared-it will be Messrs. Wolcott, Reece
and Goodwin.
INDIGNANTLY, the majority report charges
the foundations with deliberately promot-
ing such obvious evils as "internationalism,"
"globalism," "socialism," and "empiricism."
(The Reece committee probably got carried

away with "ism's" when they included "em-
piricism" which the dictionary says is "a
philosophic technique basing conclusions on
experience and experiment rather than ab-
stract logic.") Foundations are also accused of
"propagandizing blindly for the United Na-
tions" and supporting a "conscious distortion
of history."
The most interesting aspect of the majority
report is that it was prepared and released
without ever hearing what the foundations
had to say. As unlikely as it seems in this day
and age, the investigated parties were never
allowed to present a defense. For the first
ten months of its existence, the Reece Com-
mittee took no testimony. It was "preparing
an approach." When hearings were finally
begun last May, the staff did most of the
testifying. Rep. Reece denied the foundations'
requests to appear in their own defense but
magnanimously allowed them to submit state-
ments.
REP. HA.YES and Mrs. Pfost described the
majority report as an "ugly stain" on the
House. They charged, in their minority report,
that the foundations had been "indicated and
convicted" under procedures which violated
"every principal of our constitution."
One question, among others, comes to mind:
If such solid institutions as the Ford Founda-
tion (assets $518 million) and the Rockefeller
Foundation (assets $300 million) can be treat-
ed in such summary fashion, what limits, if
any, will be placed on abuse to ordinary citi-
zens? Foundations have financial backing, in-
fluence and prestige to protect them against
jackals like Rep. Reece-Mr. Next-Door Neigh-
bor has not.
SEVERE criticism has often been levelled
against the procedural safeguards of Con-
gressional investigating committees. During the
heyday of witchhunt investigations when men
like Jenner, McCarthy and Velde were drunk
with their power to abuse and control, Con-
gress should have realized its obligation to re-
examine the rules of inquiry and establish safe-
guards. The Reece majority report makes
such reexamination imperative. If Congress
acts to curb the almost unlimited power of
investigating committees, Rep. Reece will go
down in history as the investigator who con-
vinced Congress investigations needed investi-
gating.
-Lee Marks

By WALTER LIPPMANN
tT IS A remarkable fact that in
the weeks since the election
the prestige and power of Presi-
dent Eisenhower have risen steep-
ly. This has happened in spite of
the fact that the most significant
Democratic gains were in the ter-
ritory where the Republican party
is most strongly pro-Eisenhower,
Why, nevertheless, is the Presi-
dent's power growing?
PRIMARILY, I believe, because
the elections have put an end
to his attempts to do the impos-
sible-namely to unite the two
wings of his party under his lead-
ership. The Republican Senate
Chairmen who, by virtue of sen-
iority alone, controlled the legis-
lative and the investigating com-
mittees were not willing to be led
by President Eisenhower. They did
not feel they had to make any im-
portant concessions to him. After
the death of Sen. Taft they acted
as men not concerned with the
future of the Republican party as
a national organization.
This attitude of their applied
not only to measures-such as the
trade program-but to the Presi-
dent's constitutional prerogatives
in the conduct of- the Administra-
tion and in the choice of personnel
in the executive branch of the
government. The record of legis-
lative usurpation during the first
two years of the Eisenhower ad-
ministration is the blackest since
the days of the Reconstruction.
During this time the President
himself was in deepening trouble
because he could not lead these
chairmen nor could he get along
without them-
The election has released him
from their grip and has solved the
problem with which they oppress-
ed him. The President is free to
be the kind of President he was
chosen to be, the only kind of
President he really knows how to
be. This is a President represent-
ing not a faction, not even a
mere party, but that preponderant
majority of moderate men and
women who are in both parties.
The spectacle of Eisenhower as-
sociated even at second hand with
a campaign to accuse the Dejno-
crats of twenty years of treason
was as absurd as it was ignomin-
ious. The real Eisenhower consti-
tuency is measured by the two-
thirds of the Senate which voted
to Condemn McCarthy; they re-
present and reflect the prepon-
derant American majority.
THUS IN the second half of his
term Eisenhower has come in-
to the position which is particu-
larly and indeed uniquely his own.
This is to be a President who,
standing above mere party com-
petition, unites the great mass of
the nation. And on what does he
unite them? The President said
the other day that it was on a
policy of progressive moderation.
No doubt that is so. But the main
issues that really arouse the peo-
ple are not the legislative propos-
als. There are no very hot differ-
ences over those prposals. The
real issues are those of war and
peace, national security and per-
sonal freedom. These are issues
of life and death. The original
mission of Eisenhower was to lift
these issues out of politics, above
the factions, and away from the
demagogues and the agitators.
Until last spring Gen. Eisen-
hower was on the way to being
as unsuccessful a President as was
Gen. Grant. Like Gen. Grant he
was bewildered and helpless in

McCarthy and fought back on the
question of who was to run the
Army. And this was followed by
the President's decision not to in-
tervene in Indo-China This de-
cision marked the defeat of the
war party and the emergence of
President Eisenhower as the ar-
biter of high policy.
THERE ARE many signs that
the President will now have
an easier time dealing with his
own party. The pro-Eisenhower
half is, of course, more than ever
warmly attached to him. There
will still be the hard core of the
extreme right-wing. But they are
no longer in control of any of the
crucial committees, the President
does not have to appease them in
order to carry his measures, and
they are left with nothing much
more than the right and the pow-
er to speak. They have no power
to act and not much power to ob-
struct. For all the great issues of
war and peace, of security and
freedom, the President now has
behind him an overwhelming ma-
jority-reflected by at least two-
thirds of the Senate.
This accounts for the fact that
though the Republicans lost the
election, the Republican President
is growing stronger. After two
years in the wilderness of faction-
al politics, Eisenhower is back
home among his real friends.
EISENHOWER'Sapresent posi-
tion, that of aleader with a
following dependent upon the
other party, is by no means un-
precedented in American politics.
Al Smith, for example, was just
about the best Governor New York
State has had; never, if I remem-
ber correctly, did Al Smith have a
legislature controlled by his own
party. Indeed, it can be argued I
think, that in the American sys-
tem of government with its separ-
ation of powers, it is not at all
abnormal that the executive
should operate not with his own
party united behind him but with
a coalition. When the executive
knows how to talk to the people
as a whole, he can often do better
by rallying around him his own
personal majority than by attemp-
ting to do only what all the dif-
ferent factions of his own party
can be persuaded to agree upon.
Cfrr
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DREW PEARSON:
Washington
Merry-Go -
Round
WASHINGTON - Inside story
can now be told of how young
Deputy Attorney-General Bill Ro-
gers actually overruled the Presi-
dent of the United States in ap-
pointing a Federal judge.
President Eisenhower had prom-
ised to appoint outgoing Sen. Bob
Hendrickson, New Jersey Repub-
lican, to the U.S. Court of Appeals
as his consolation prize for step-
ping aside and letting Clifford
Case run for the Senate. In fact,
Ike had given his personal word
on this to Hendrickson's colleague,
Sen. Alex Smith, also of New Jer-
sey.
But at the same time, young
Rogers had also made a commit-
ment-namely, to wangle a Fed-
eral judgeship for Joseph McGar-
raghy on the D.C. District Court.
As long-time GOP boss. of the
voteless District of Columbia, M-
Garraghy was too much of a po-
litico to risk appointing him to
the higher Court of Appeals.
However, a vacancy existed on
the Court of Appeals, not the Dis-
trict Court. To get around this
difficulty, Rogers deftly managed
to promote District Judge Walter
Bastian to the Appeals Court and
thus create an opening for Mc-
3arraghy down below on the Dis-
trict Court.
All this was pulled off smoothly
without notifying the President,
who is supposed to appoint Fed-
eral judges. And by the time Ike
heard about it, Bastian's appoint-
ment had already been -sent to the
Senate for approval.
Meanwhile, Senator Smith of
New Jersey had spread word
around the Senate that Ike had
promised the Appeals vacancy to
Senator Hendrickson. So when
Bastian's name came to the Sen-
ate instead, it made Smith look
like a fool. He telephoned the
White House in a rage and ac-
cused the President of "a breach
of faith." Senate GOP leader Bill
Knowland of California joined in
the protest.
Ike decided, however, it would
be too embarrassing to withdraw
Bastian's appointment after it
had already been announced. So
he tried to mollify the Senators
by offering Hendrickson the Am-
bassadorship to New Zealand.
By this time Hendrickson was
really sore. He had agreed not to
run for re-election, had watched
Clifford Case win instead, and now
the promised judgeship had faded
to an ambassadorship "down un-
der." So he pouted and refused to
say whether he would accept or
not. After his friend, Amos J. Peas-
lee of New Jersey, was appointed
ambassador to next-door Australia,
however, Hendrickson decided he
would like to go to New Zealand
after all.
But by this time, the State De-
partment didn'tdwant the job and
had gone ahead with other ar-
rangements. Today the diplomats
are frantically trying to straight-
en out the mess,
Oldest Senator
THE OLDEST member of the
new 84th Congress, 87-year-
old Sen. Theodore Francis Green
of Rhode Island, plans to set a
new record before this session of
Congress ends.
If he lives beyond Feb. 26, 1956,
he will be the oldest active Sen-
ator in our history. That record

is now held posthumously by for-
mer Sen. Justin Smith Morrill of
Vermont, who lived to be 88 years,
8 months and 14 days while still
in the Senate.
At the rate he's going, Green
ought to be a cinch to be the new
champ. The latest physical check-
up showed him to be in excellent
condition, and, having just been
elected for his fourth six-year
term last November, he has ev-
ery intention of finishing the term
at the age of 92.
"Then I may think about re-
tiring," says Green with a wry
grin. Meantime, the spry, bache-
lor Senator is kept busy as the
Jhairman of two committees by
day and on the capital's social
whirl by night. Office aides say
he averages two or three social
functionsa week.
Certification Confusion
AS THE House of Representa-
tives was about to convene yes-
terday, young Lyle Snader, out-
going GOP Clerk of the House,
held his breath. For a time it
looked as if the Democrats would-
n't control.
It happens that getting elected
to Congress isn't enough, to en-
title a Congressman to his seat in
the House. The Secretary of State
of the Congressman's home terri-
tory must also officially "certify"
him before he can be seated. And
last week two important states
had not certified their Congress-
men as the zero hour approached.
Moreover, they were states -
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RECORD REVIEW
Herman's Latest Album
Completes Jazz Cycle
F WOODY HERMAN'S recent album, "Dance Date On Mars," is any
criteria he has completed the jazz cycle and is back where he start-
ed ten years ago,
In 1945 and 1946 he succeeded Benny Goodman as the top jazz
clarinetist and was proclaimed as the new "King of Swing" from coast
to coast.
His band was known as the "Herman Herd" and it was the first
big band to come into prominence after the war. In fact it was the
first talented band to come along since Goodman, Harry James arhd
Tommy Dorsey were at their peak in the late thirties and early forties.
That rip-roaring Herd hit harder than any jazz group before or since.
Its 1946 Carnegie Hall Concert was considered a worthy successor to
Goodman's concert there in 1938.
MAESTRO HERMAN either tired of all the noise, as Kenton does
every few years, or he decided to "progress" to something more
sophisticated. Nevertheless, in 1949 Woody switched to leading a small
bop combo which was fashionable among jazz artists at the time.
Three years ago he decided big bands were coming back and he
wanted, to come back with them. He couldn't get satisfactory guaran-
tees for his new venture from any of the established recording com-
panies, so he formed his own, Mars Records, from which comes the
title of this recent album.
He called his new orchestra the "Third Herd." (There never was
a second Herd unless one considers six enough to make a herd). This
new band hit the Jazz scene with surprising force considering it ap-
peared on a new label. It made the bands on top at the time, like
Ralph Flanagan's and Ralph Marterie's sound quite shallow when com-
pred with the Herd's solid-as-a-rock reasonance. Trumpeter Pete Con-
doli was gone from the old Herd but men like steady drummer Don
Lamond and comical Chubby Jackson were back.
Then came the letdown. It soon became apparent that this wasn't
a "Third Herd" but just the first one with a few minor changes.
MUCH OF THE old Herd is heard in the "Dance Date On Mars"
album. One number, "Early Autumn," sounds exactly like the
one recorded by the old Herd. "Stompin at the Savoy" also sounds
very familiar, and not because other bands play it so much. "Perdido"
may be new but the ending sounds just like "Wild Root" of the 1946
Carnegie Hall Concert.
The other numbers are evidently new and in two of them, "Jump
in the Line" and "The Blues In Advance," one of the few changes in
the new Herd is painfully apparent. It seems Woody no longer plays
his clarinet very mucl but instead had become a vocalist. Woody can't
sing any better than Dizzy Gillesepie. The only difference is that D szly
is supposed to be funny.
Two numbers do seem to have a certain freshness about them with-
out Woody's voice to interupt. "Terrissita" and "Celestial Blues" dem-
onstrate new uses of the marimba, piano and rhythm patterns which
indicate that there is still a progressive attitude, an originality present
which could put the Herd back on top of the jazz world.
--Robert Polley
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where in the state of Michigan. BA or
advanced degrees in any field.
Lectures
Phi Sigma Society. "Some Aspects of
the Ecology and Physiology of Desert
Animals" (Illustrated) by Dr. William
R. Dawson, Department of Zoology.
Rackham Amphitheatre Thurs., Jan. 6,
at 8:00 p.m. (Refreshments after
meeting for members & guests). Open
to the public. Business meeting-7:30
p.m.
"Living Religions of the Peoples of
Russia," Nicholas T. Goncharoff, for-
mer Russian Army Tank Commander,
and Frank R. Barnett, professor, Wa-
bash College. Thurs., Jan. 6, 8:00 p.m.,
Kellogg Auditorium. Sponsored by Lane
Hall.
Academic Notices
Doctoral Examination for Henry
WallacerDecker, Romance Languages
and Literatures: French, thesis: "The
Debate on Pure Poetry, 1925-1930; A
Critical Survey," Wed., Jan. 5, East
Council Room, Rackham Building,' at
3:30 p.m. Chairman, R. J. Niess.
Doctoral Examination for Robert Dorl
Francis, Bacteriology; thesis: "Studies
of the Immunological Relationships be-
tween Viruses of the Psittacosis-Lym-
phogranuloma Venereum Group," Wed.,
Jan. 5, 1566 East Medicai Bldg., at 2:00
p.m. Chairman, W. S. Preston.
Doctoral Examination for Helen
Mary Maertens Wadsworth, Psycholo-
gy, thesis: "The Relationship between
Experimentally Induced Stress and the
Characteristic Mode of Expression and
Level of Anxiety," Wed., Jan. 5, 7611
Haven Hall, at 10:00 am. Chairman,
H. L. Raush.
The Applied Mathematics Seminar
will not meet this week because of the
Goldstein Lecture at 3:30 p.m., Jan.
6, in Aud. C, M.H.
Geometry Seminar: Wed., Jan. 5, at
7:00 p.m., in Room 3001 A.H. Prof.
George Rainich will speak on "Pure
Differential Geometry."
Doctoral Examination for Kent How-
ell McKnight, botany; thesis: "Psi-
locybe Mutans Sp. Nov.: Morphology
and variations," Wed., Jan. 5, 1139
Natural Science Building, at 1:00 p.m.
Chairman, A. H. Smith.
401 Interdisciplinary Seminar on the
Application of Mathematics to Social
Science will meet Thurs., Jan. 6 in
Room 3401 Mason Hall, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
G. Livesay will speak on "Multivalued
Logic."
Seminar in Mathematical Statistics:
Thurs., Jan. 6, at 4:00 p.m., in Room
3201 A.H. Miss Irene Hess will continue
her discussion of Chapter VI of Coch-
ran's Sampling Techniques.
Engineering Mechanics Seminar in
Conjunction with the Departments of
Aeronautical Engineering, Mathematics,
and Civil Engineering. Prof. Sydney
Goldstein will speak on "The Steady
Motion of an Incompressible viscous
Fluid" at 3:30 p.m. Thurs., Jan. 6, in
Auditorium C, Mason Hall.
Doctoral Examination for Ralph Wal-
ton Raiford ,Jr. Chemistry; thesis:

gious Paintings of Giovanni Battista
Gaulli," Fri., Jan. 7, 205 Tappan Hal
at 3:00 p.m. Chairman, H., . Wethey.
events Today
Episcopal Student Foundation. Stu-
dent Breakfast at Canterbury House, on
Wed,, Jan. 5, after the 7:00 a.m. Holy
Comm~union.
Episcopal Student Foundation. Stu-
dent-Faculty Tea from 4:00 to 8:00
-p.m. on Wed., Jan. 5, at Canterbury
House.
The Congregational-Disciples Guild
7:00 p.m., Discussion Group at the
Guild House.
Movies. Free movies, "Beavers" and
"The Bobolink and the Bluejay," Jan.
4-10. 4th floor Exhibit Hall, Museums
Building. Daily at 3:00 and 4:00, in-
cluding Sat. and Sun., extra showing
Wed. at 12:30.
ULLR Ski Club will meet at 8:00 p.m.
tonight in room 3G of the Union.
Movie, "Skiing in the Valley of the
Saints."
Father Mac Phillips will conduct an
open forum discussion in the Father
Richard Center following devotions
Wed, evening,
Pershing Rifles: All P/R's meet at
TOB in-uniform at 1930 hrs., Jan. 5 forO
regular company drill. Be there! Re-
member, we have drill meets in the
very near future. Also, pledge exam will
be given.
Sophomore Engineering Class Board
will meet tonight in Room 1300, East
Engineering Bldg. at 7:30 p.m. Com-
mittee work on elections will be dis-
cussed. Open to the public.
AAUP, Michigan Chapter, will meet
Wed., Jan. 5, 8:00 p.m., in the East
Conference Room, Rackham Building.
Daen Fedele F. Fauri, of the School of
Social Work, will lead a discussion on
"University Participation in Social Se-
curity," All faculty members invited.
Le Cercle Francais will meet tonight
at 8:00 p.m. in the Michigan°Union.
All members are urged to attend as
this, is the last meeting of the semes-
ter and we will have elections. Two
films will be shown and refreshments
will be served. The Ensian picture will
be retaken.
Wesleyan Guild Wed., Jan. 5, Mid-
week Worship in the chapel at 5:15
p.m. Mid-week Tea in the lounge, 4:15
-5:15 p.m.
Special meeting of the Pre Med. So-
ciety Wed., Jan. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in Aud.
C Angell Hall for all freshman and
sophomore pre medical students. Dr.
Wayne L. Whitaker, assistant dean of
the Medical School and Dr. Philip F.
Weatherill, pre medical adviser, will
speak.
Coming Events
The Congregational-Disciples Guild:
5:00-5:30 p.m., Mid-week Meditation in
Douglas Chapel, 7:00-8:00 p.m., Bible
Class at the Guild House. "Greeat
Ideas of the Bible"
La Petite Causette meets Thurs., Jan.
6 from 3:30-5:00 p.m. in the left room
of the Union cafeteria. venez tous et
narlez francais.


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INTERPRETING THE NEWS

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By WILLIAM L. RYAN
AP Foreign News Analyst
THE YEAR begins on an ominous note, with
rumbling threats from* Moscow.
While there is every likelihood the Russians
will continue to avoid any irrevocable steps
that miglt plunge them- into the war for
which they are unready they seem in a mood
to take some calculated risks to prevent any
combined Western action from menacing their
long-range goals.
The ominous note is underscored by the tone
of the Soviet press in recent weeks. All through
the debate of the French National Assembly
on the Paris agreements to arm Western Ger-
many, the Soviet press was engaged in an in-

aims. The aim of the latest campaign seems
to be to use the events in Paris and Western
Europe as an excuse for demanding an in-
crease of labor productivity in the Soviet
Union, particularly in fields which might be
connected with the military.
OUTSIDE the Soviet Union, the Communist
reaction to the French Parliament's rati-
fication of the Paris agreements was swift and
unanimous, suggesting it had been dictated
well in advance, The reaction could be sum-
med up in a line: "It's not over yet."
There can be little doubt the Communists
hope to strew all sorts of obstacles along- thW
rocky road still to be traveled by the Western
Allies before an effective European alliance
comes into being.

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