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Ulysses' ancient Odyssey with a bagful of spirited winds had something in common with the voyage that Arkansas' Wilbur Mills, chairman of the powerful House Ways & Means Committee, embarked on last week. With Mills's hand on the tiller, the House committee killed off by a vote of 17 to 8 (ten Republicans, seven Democrats v. eight Democrats) the Forand bill (TIME, April 4), which would provide old-age medical and surgical benefits to Social Security pensioners at a cost -to be paid for by increased Social Security taxes-estimated to run $2 billion in the first...
...press report of his U.S. visit told of an astounding meeting between Macmillan and Secretary of State Christian Herter, at which Macmillan talked ominously of economic war between Britain's Outer Seven and Europe's Common Market unless the U.S. steps in. As the report had it, Macmillan warned that Britain would not sit idly by while a German-led Common Market squeezes it out of Europe and achieves hegemony on the Continent. Macmillan reportedly recalled that in the past Britain had joined hands with Russia to crush Napoleon's France; the British now might be forced...
Macmillan himself was amazed and outraged, and the Foreign Office put out an official statement denying that Macmillan had ever mentioned Naziism in Washington or threatened an alliance with Russia against Germany and the Common Market nations. Macmillan went before the House of Commons to insist: "We believe that the new friendship between Germany and France is absolutely vital to the future peace in Europe. We agree . . . that not only do the Six have the right to make this commercial treaty, but that it is a good thing-we have said it over and over again-to have that degree...
What Macmillan was objecting to was the speedup in the Common Market's plans to lower its internal tariff walls while raising barriers against other traders. A plan before the Common Market already proposes to chop internal tariffs 20% in July instead of the planned 10%; at the same time, external tariffs in West Germany and the Benelux countries, with which Britain does $850 million worth of trade annually, will rise sharply. Macmillan's fear was that the move would only widen the gap between the Common Market and the Outer Seven, divide Europe into two economic camps...
...British labor today, Coventry has become a common form of social punishment. Labor leaders estimate that in the last several years at least 50 workers have been sent to Coventry for one breach of union solidarity or another. The treatment can be tragically effective. In 1956 a railroad engine driver named Jack Heginbotham put his head in a gas oven after living in silence one solid year. Says another victim: "I have seen grown men standing still and doffing their caps as I passed by to show me that as far as they were concerned I was dead...