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Great Possessions. Pale with anger, the bewigged Lord Chancellor, Viscount Kilmuir, rose to Macleod's defense, calling Salisbury's speech "the most bitter attack I have ever known on a Minister in my 26 years in Parliament." Next came Lord Hailsham, 53, Tory campaign manager in the last election, who referred scathingly to Salisbury's "great possessions which, here and in Africa, give him the right to speak about affairs." (Salisbury, the capital of Southern Rhodesia, is named after his grandfather.) Hailsham went on: "My lords, we cannot all have great possessions...
Western firms have had to cut their own prices to meet the Soviet competition, regardless of the shrieks of anger from the Middle East Arab producing lands, which suffer losses of revenue every time the price goes down. Arab opinion, in fact, is one reason why Russia selects only certain key targets for its cutthroat dumping, elsewhere keeps its price only slightly lower than the going rate...
...year that Belgium had been accustomed to extracting from the Congo. The new year saw the freakish collapse of a slag heap near Liege, burying six homes and eleven persons. It also brought the worst air disaster in Belgian history, a Sabena jet crash that killed 73. In anger over the Congo, often under Communist leadership, Belgian embassies and consulates were being looted and burned around the world. In the streets of Brussels, pro-Lumumbist demonstrators tried to march on Congolese Army recruiting centers; others, carrying banners declaring ENOUGH HUMILIATION WITHOUT REACTION, in retaliation mobbed the U.A.R. and Russian embassies...
Reproach turned to anger when a U.S.-built Chinese Nationalist patrol bomber overflew Burma, apparently trying to drop supplies to the fleeing Kuomintang forces. Burmese fighters attacked it, and it crashed over the border in Thailand. But in the course of the battle, one Burmese fighter was shot down, another damaged. The Burmese government brought the body of the dead pilot back to Rangoon for ceremonial burial. Burma sent off a protest...
Anyone who manages to read this book will quite likely become damned mad. Furthermore, if you do read it, the direction of your anger will depend almost solely upon your prior viewpoint...