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...secret of his campaign to wrest the party from Moderate Clement Attlee. The Bevan wing demanded a tough vote of censure against Churchill, against the U.S. bombing raids on the Yalu River power plants (TIME, July 7) and against the U.S. conduct of the Korean war. Attlee, concerned for Anglo-American solidarity, adamantly refused to join the movement. He favored only a mild motion censuring Churchill for having failed to get advance notice of the raids. In the angry party showdown, Attlee won, 101 to 52-but some 60 non-Bevanite Laborites abstained rather than support Attlee's leadership...
...truce team was taken up with Mark Clark, who was agreeable to the plan. But Alexander himself advised against it because 1) the Americans are taking what he thinks is a correct line, 2) the Reds might interpret the addition of a British representative as evidence of Anglo-U.S. friction...
Eagle-beaked Count della Zonca, an old hand at finding oil in troubled waters, had launched his Italian Middle East Oil Co. in 1938 by buying half a million tons of oil expropriated by Mexico. When Iran expropriated the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. last year, he got busy again, signed a ten-year agreement to barter Italian manufactures for Iranian...
Only the British stood in the way. Anglo-Iranian had warned potential buyers that they would be prosecuted for dealing in stolen property. All major oil companies joined in boycotting a nation which broke its contract. But not Della Zonca. Hearing of his deal, the British protested without success to Italy, and then with success to the Rose Mary's owner...
...Just before commencement, the trustees of Nashotah House, a 110-year-old seminary near Milwaukee, dissolved the student council after a running controversy. Although Nashotah has traditionally been a stronghold of the Anglo-Catholic segment in the church, seminarians have recently been getting too Catholic for comfort. Led by Father Everett B. Bosshard, professor of dogmatic theology, most students, the trustees complained, had adopted such Roman Catholic practices as saying the rosary and burning votive candles, were drifting toward such "Romanist" dogma as the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. Last month the trustees fired Father Bosshard only to have...