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...Swift. By week's end the race seemed to be going to the swift. Dag Hammarskjold. working for peace with the kind of quiet effectiveness that would win medals in war, did not wait for the necessary final consent from Egypt's Premier Nasser to assemble the first big contingent of policemen. He set up a U.N. staging area outside Naples, began assembling there 6,000 soldiers from Denmark, Norway, Canada, Colombia. Finland. India and Sweden, for the hop into the Suez area. As they got set. Russia put out a warning that its "volunteers'" would...
...news from Budapest was that the Kremlin could no longer paper over or conceal the splits and fissures in the Communist monolith (see FOREIGN NEWS). Beyond that, Budapest was a new vindication of the old proposition that government, however strong, cannot indefinitely have its way without the consent of the governed, however it might seem to be dulled. "The soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night," Winston Churchill once said memorably, citing this proposition, "can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where...
...This would make it possible for the United Nations to mobilize large teams of official observers and fly them into Hungary and also into other satellite nations that might welcome or consent to their presence...
...European customs union actually came into existence and Britain stood aloof, there was every likelihood that the tariff wall thrown up by the new group would bar many British exports from European markets. (One-eighth of British exports now go to the Messina Six.) But could Britain consent to have her tariff policy toward the rest of the Commonwealth, the system of "imperial preference," tampered with by an outside authority? If Britain were forced to choose between Europe and the Commonwealth, said Harold Macmillan, "we could not hesitate. We must choose the Commonwealth...
...prospective beauty queen or an admirer may submit her application blank with a photograph attached, according to present plans for the project. However, no woman may be entered in the contest without her consent...