France and Italy were busy trying to put together governments; Spain wrestled in the dark with the uncertainties of succession; European diplomats lobbed back and forth the frazzled balls of contention; economists murmured about deficits and inflation. All their worries were real, but so is another Europe that thousands of holidaying Americans could plainly see last weekÂa free Europe that is prospering, its peoples living better and more richly than ever before.
The traveler, not usually the most acute observer, may notice it first in the new buildings his plane passes over,...