PASSAGE TO EUROPE
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
Where The News Ends Passage to Europe By William Henry Chamberlin WHEN THIS COLUMN APPEARS, bar/ ring unpredictable accidents, I shall be \ in London. Britain will be the first lap of a...
...French politics rests oh the uneasy tripod constituted' by the middle-ground parties who support the present government, the supporters of General de Gaulle on one side and the Communists on the other...
...There is much to study in the new constitution for Western Germany, in the new German political stirrings, in the interplay of occupation policies...
...The President had given, in a letter to Speaker Rayburn, a careful analysis of the bill...
...a* THE FATAL WEAKNESS of the real estate lobby's case is revealed by the amount of space given to the childish cry of "socialism...
...Any Congressman whe reads the NAREB argument and then votes against H.R...
...Are there prospects of greater political and ecof nomic unity...
...I» any one of these forces gaining at the expense of the others...
...Has ERP been a long-range form . for reconstruction or just a temporary relief stopgap...
...People are not punished by being sent to camps where they work , twenty hours on food that is only sufficient | to keep them going for two...
...How are various classes of the British people feeling as the time approaches for a new general election...
...There is an excellent, detailed section, phrased in severely restrained language, about , one of the greatest postwar tragedies, the uprooting and mass deportation of some fourteen million human beings, Germans and people of j German origin, from their homes in the eastern provinces of Germany, the Sudeten area of Czechoslovakia, and Poland and other east European countries...
...Mr...
...The solid-looking part of the answer of the" Real Estate Board is a computation by a firm of public...
...The highlight...
...And what nonsense this makes of the familiar halfbaked contention that the Soviet system more or less makes up for theft absence of political liberty by providing "sec«f urity" and "economic democracy...
...I If one's father la arrested by the govern- .. ment one can ask about it and not fear to be arrested too...
...The fact that a good deal of the money is to be lent, rather than donated, means that actual expenditures will be less than they seem...
...They fail to realize that if he is really in hot water, no amount of bailing will help...
...Abrams promptly countered by saying that the chief lobbyist, "by carefully pruning out the modifying clauses and a few relevant sentences, has achieved the literary miracle of having an author say precisely what he did not say...
...Three years ago I visited Europe for the first time since shortly after the French collapse in 1940...
...And along with the individual problems of fiie separate countries there are the larger quejffi tions affecting Western Europe as a whole...
...Klaus Mehnert and Dr...
...Here are facts which have been almost completely ignored in the American press...
...Going to Europe in 1949 does not, perhaps, promise — to many discoveries...
...These are no intellectual abstractions but straightforward reactions to the brutal realities:, of Soviet life...
...How far is the Communist grip on the French trade unions being loosened or broken...
...There ware scores of questions about the effect of the war to which one could hope to And answers only on the spot...
...H.R...
...Jtcontains all available data on Germany's geog- j raphy and resources, on the state of its economy, on the situation created by the four-power occupation...
...Their stand is dlaarmlngly naive, -Morris I. Chapmen...
...help to farmers for construction of better buildings, and appropriations to set up a building research bureau...
...The President conscientiously explained how these provisions will key in with local efforts...
...The beat way to the Soviet's hide is through her stomach...
...There are probably several hundred thousand of these refugees...
...one of the abler American correspondents in Germany, con* tributfd a very illuminating article on Soviet refugees in Germany to a recent issue of the, Saturday Evening Post...
...Invaluable for reference purposes) one hopes an English translation will be under* taken...
...One 'gets the impression that, partly because of the working of natural forces of recovery, partly because of ERP, the economic situation has improved and the political situation has become more stable , . Still, every country has its story and I am sure I will find the three months which I must parcel out among eight countries far too short...
...he s^fd...
...Britain will be the first lap of a three-month trip which will tike me to most of the countries of Western Europe and , to Germany...
...4009 has four main features: slum-clearance...
...Anyone who reads the * NAREB reply will see that they came off a very poor-second...
...but, because they.do everything to avoid at?f tracting notice to themselves—hiding under* false passports and false nationalities—their numbers and significance have not made any...
...f *r * .¦ V'i These are just a few of the questions to whicfi fl shall try to find answer* during the next three" months in Europe, : «j Soviet Bill of Rights MARGUERITE HIOGINS...
...rj Truman Wins Again rpHE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION of Real 1 Estate Boards made a bad mistake by • /faltering into debate with President Truman over his letter explaining the federal housing bill, H.R...
...of this excellent article was a definition of democracy by a Caucasian sergeant in the Red' Army, a former Communist: "Democracy...
...WESTERN GERMANY, a morass of terrible misery, despair and stagnation in 1946, has obviously improved substantialfy, although from a very low level...
...It is "Deutschland Jahrbuch lB49,'f edited by Dr...
...Is where freedom to speak is not only in tha constitution but I can be practiced each day without arrest...
...community housing projects...
...German Source Book FOR THOSE WHO CAN READ GERMAN aif# excellent source book, packed with factual in«j| formation about postwar Germany, is nowi available...
...What is the overall balance-sheet...
...The attitude of those Senators who favor the Atlantic Pact but frown upon equipping the signatories militarily la fantastic...
...The trip to Europe in 1946 carried with it a sense of exploration, of discovering a lost continent...
...4009...
...Washington Is convinced thai the economic aquaese on Russia and her satellites led to the Kremlin's changed attitude...
...It has nationalized coal mines and railways, gas and electricity, inland transport, and enterprises of lesser importance...
...A large part of this space is devoted to a quotation from Charles Abrams, the housing expert...
...The Russian Embassy thinks the $100,000 bail for the release of Gubitchev, held for espionage, excessive...
...4009 must have some motive outside the realm of logic or of public welfare...
...v« 1...
...The people can change their government if they do not ]£ke I it...
...Pen Points King Leopold, now in exile, wants to return to the Belgian throne...
...real impact on the United States...
...The government does not take away so much grain and so many chickens from the farmer that his family is hungry and the tj children lie in bed whimpering from t hunger...
...Where The News Ends Passage to Europe By William Henry Chamberlin WHEN THIS COLUMN APPEARS, bar/ ring unpredictable accidents, I shall be in London...
...accountants setting the figure of more than $19,000,000,000 as the ultimate cost ' authorized by the bill...
...Nothing is given but the round, final figure...
...The yearbook also describes trad* unions and social insurance, churches and edV ucation, all the salient aspects of modern German life...
...The Labor party had only completed its first year in power in 1946...
...vThese*»JE r just samples of the questions which will con,"' front a visitor to Paris...
...No account is taken of future modifications during the 30 or 40 years that the bill is to run, or of that portion of federal money to be lent rather than donated...
...Heinrichf Schulte, published by West-Verlag, Essen...
...Now it has behind it four years of governing in a testing period of reconstruction...
...It has put into effect one of the most ambitious social welfare schemes: medical aid to the whole population paid for by insurance contributions and government subsidies...
...How^is Labor party policy shaping up on the internal and international fronts...
...For him it is "uneasy lies that head that wears no crown...
Vol. 32 • June 1949 • No. 26
