THE WEEK

The Bolshoi Ballet has gathered up its sets and danced back into the night, but not without a jolly memento of American hospitality nestling for the moment in New York banks. Gross profits to Ulanova and her comrades from their U.S. turn: $1,350,000. Why not shift the dough into a blocked account, gathering due interest, to be held against payment of the millions in royalties due American writers from pirated Soviet editions of their books? We slip the suggestion to Mr. Adlai Stevenson, who recently made a well-publicized trip to Moscow as attorney for a number of our writers thus defrauded.

Konrad Adenauer’s sudden change of mind, and his decision to remain as Chancellor rather than go through with a shift in office to the West German Presidency have precipitated a grave crisis within the Christian Democratic Union, and therefore in West Germany and in the Western alliance as a whole. It seems evident that Adenauer came to realize during the past two months that the German constitution did not permit him to be a de Gaulle, and that as President he could no longer control with certainty either the choice of his successor as Chancellor or the course of West German policy. However admirable his motives in reconsidering, he made a grave political mistake—either by resigning or by rescinding the resignation. And in politics not only the politician himself but the rest of us on his side must pay for mistakes.

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The Bolshoi Ballet has gathered up its sets and danced back into the night, but not without a jolly memento of American hospitality nestling for the moment in New York banks. Gross profits to Ulanova and her comrades from their U.S. turn: $1,350,000. Why not shift the dough into a blocked account, gathering due interest, to be held against payment of the millions in royalties due American writers from pirated Soviet editions of their books? We slip the suggestion to Mr. Adlai Stevenson, who recently made a well-publicized trip to Moscow as attorney for a number of our writers thus defrauded.

Konrad Adenauer’s sudden change of mind, and his decision to remain as Chancellor rather than go through with a shift in office to the West German Presidency have precipitated a grave crisis within the Christian Democratic Union, and therefore in West Germany and in the Western alliance as a whole. It seems evident that Adenauer came to realize during the past two months that the German constitution did not permit him to be a de Gaulle, and that as President he could no longer control with certainty either the choice of his successor as Chancellor or the course of West German policy. However admirable his motives in reconsidering, he made a grave political mistake—either by resigning or by rescinding the resignation. And in politics not only the politician himself but the rest of us on his side must pay for mistakes.