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...train at Aldgate station when ordered to and shouted down a London Transport inspector who tried to explain that the train's failure to move was due to an equipment failure. "I couldn't get a hearing," he said, appalled. "I was one man against a mob...
...months since he seized power in Baghdad, wiry Strongman Karim Kassem has been obsessed by one problem: how to escape domination by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. To fight off the Arab nationalists in his midst, Kassem all but handed control of the Baghdad mob to the Communists, did not even intervene when the Reds organized a stone-throwing reception for U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Rountree (TIME, Dec. 29). Last week, for the first time, there were signs that Kassem might have come to realize that Moscow's embrace can be even more crushing than Cairo...
...Down with Belgium." With cries of "Independence!", "Down with Belgium!" and "Vive Ghana!", the crowd surged down Prince Baudouin Avenue, was soon joined by thousands of spectators who were just then emerging from the football stadium. The swollen mob swept through the city, upset and burned cars, stoned and mauled Europeans, pillaged shops. Bands looted public buildings and invaded mission schools, concentrating their fury on Roman Catholic more than on Protestant schools (though Kasavubu, mission-educated, studied philosophy for three years as a Catholic seminarist). Under orders from their Belgian officers, African police opened fire, and Belgian paratroopers manned...
...December issue of the World Marxist Review (published in Prague), Yudin accuses Nehru of distorting Communism's meaning and discrediting "the real and living socialism" that the Reds are building in China and Europe. Nehru's police, he said, had committed "collective murders" in putting down mob violence...
DETROIT--A mob of screaming Hungarians surged against police lines last night, hurling snowballs at Soviet Deputy Premier A. I. Mikoyan...