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Last week, for example, Radio Moscow named five British businessmen who, after arranging a $28,000,000 commercial deal with Russia at the recent Moscow trade conference, journeyed on to Peking. There they studied a bacteriological warfare exhibit which was supposed to show germ-carrying U.S. bombs. Exclaimed one Briton: "Inconceivable that the evidence shown us was forged." Communist organs in France are whipping up a demonstration against the new NATO Commander Matthew Ridgway, who is being denounced as the "microbe killer." Capping it all, the Pyongyang radio has been broadcasting the "confessions" of two captured...
...Triptych. The conflict in South Africa is not simply a matter of black v. white. It is a triptych of Boer, Briton and Bantu Negro...
...Austerity. By then, Stafford Cripps was in a way the most powerful man in Britain. As Chancellor of the Exchequer and Minister for Economic Affairs, he ruled the cupboard, stomach and pocketbook of every Briton. Prim and trim, he peered coldly through half-moon glasses, wore a smile that looked like the result of a bite from a persimmon, seemed always to be telling fuel-short Britons to take cold baths (as he had done every day for years). He was Mr. Austerity. Actually, Stafford Cripps was affable, friendly, generous. Britons knew he was doing a grim job that...
...Joker. Moreover-and this sent Britons cabling home for instructions-Russia would accept payment for her wares in local currency and spend the money in the country of origin. Peking Banker Nan Han-chen, the chief Chinese delegate, was equally specific about Chinese wants. Said one Briton: "These people [the Chinese] didn't come here to shoot off hot air, but to do business." Down in the fine print was the joker: the West must end its embargo against the Soviet bloc, and especially against Red China...
Second-Day Fight. "Don't suppose there'll be many there today, after last night," said a Briton queuing for a seat in the gallery. "You'll be surprised," replied a bobby. "They won't miss today's fight." The fight involved Tory plans to levy small charges for medicines and appliances, under Labor's pet socialized health plan. "Unless we restore our precarious [economic] situation," warned Health Minister Harry Crookshank, "it is not the National Health Service which will be destroyed but the very foundations of our economy . . ." The Tories planned to save...