Editorials.

The article discusses several issues around the world. French General Charles de Gaulle insists that the unity of Europe must rest on cooperation among sovereign states, and above all on French-West Germany axis independent of the United States, with, France and, by implication, West Germany, each possessing its own arsenal of atomic bombs. At, a press conference in 1959, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower called Berlin, Germany's situation abnormal, surely a modest appraisal, all things considered. But German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, suspecting gloomily, and correctly, (1) that anything that was abnormal called for normalization and (2) that normalization in this instance could only be at West Germany's immediate expense, and declared highly affronted. Ever since, he continues to be affronted whenever the possibility arises, no matter how distant and vague, of a U.S.-Soviet detente on the divided city.