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Despite the list of probable Chinese demands, there is no longer any real hope -even among the British, who have clung to it longest-that a serious rift is developing between Peking and Moscow...
...aimed not at the 100 reporters before him but at the representatives of six Continental nations gathering next day to discuss a common draft period for the European Army. The conference had been called by Belgium's conservative government, which is finding its two-year draft period-the longest in Western Europe-a worrisome political issue.* There had been antidraft riots in Brussels, sparked by Belgian Socialists, and a distressing though brief mutiny among Belgian conscripts. Prime Minister Jean van Houtte, anxious to convince Belgian voters that they were not being asked to do more than anyone else, begged...
Kurt Schumacher's German Socialists held up passage of the bill for three days, while they held the floor for 25 hours in the longest filibuster in the short history of the new Bonn Republic. The bill, they complained, is "reactionary" because it gives the workers only one-third instead of one-half of the voting power in the larger industries. The German Federation of Trade Unions (6,000,000 members) for the first time agreed to join with Schumacher's party in fighting Adenauer...
...Charles Alan Wright, University of Minnesota law professor, Saturday Review: "I think Hiss is innocent . . . Mr. Chambers is the author of one of the longest works of fiction of the year . . ." Cf Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Saturday Review: "Whittaker Chambers has written one of the really significant American autobiographies. [The book] is written with intensity-with an unAmerican, I was about to say, or at least un-Anglo-Saxon intensity . . . Chambers is a figure out of Dostoevsky, not out of William Dean Howells . . . When Mr. Chambers demands belief in God as the first credential, he is surely skating near the edge...
...that time, about 2000 stormed about from 'Cliffe to the river, begining after dinner and not retiring until 1 a.m. in the longest-lasting outbreak in the history of the school. The business started over some stolen bell clappers but soon degenerated into a run-of-the-mill riot...