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...rifles and automatic weapons, which were promptly shipped to the town of Oudjda near the Algerian border. Though the Moroccans last week insisted that the arms were for their own use, French intelligence agents believe the shipment was paid for by Red China. If so, it is the first tangible result of the recent visit of F.L.N. Chief Ferhat Abbas to Peking...
...account, Laborite Tony Benn first dreamed of becoming an M.P. when most of his boyhood chums were still aspiring to become locomotive engineers. He realized his dream at 25, rose rapidly in Labor Party ranks, last year was transport "minister:" in Labor's shadow Cabinet. But ever since his elder brother was killed while serving in the R.A.F., the shadowy menace of "the other place" (as the Commons calls the House of Lords) has hung over Tony...
...House of Lords, Tony first asked for permission to renounce his peerage. The lords refused. Next his father offered the Wedgwood Benn (Renunciation) bill, which would allow the title to remain in abeyance at least in his lifetime. "My son is not of noble blood," Lord Stansgate pleaded. "He is a commoner and wants to remain a commoner...
Life or Death. Late last month, when the first Viscount Stansgate finally died at 83, Tony Wedgwood Benn found himself in limbo. The very day the old viscount breathed his last, the Commons cut off his now titled son's pay; all the young Benns, including four small children, were left without means of support. Tony's unemployment status was made official when his national insurance cards were returned. Nobody listened when the hapless peer insisted that everyone keep calling him just plain Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn. When he applied for the usual M.P.'s railroad pass...
...aside $1,000,000 from his $150 million special contingencies' fund for Miami refugee aid, mostly to resettle the unemployed exiles in areas offering jobs. In making available the money, Ike invoked a Mutual Security Act clause authorizing assistance to refugees from Communism, and thus for the first time the U.S. officially labeled Cuba...