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East Pakistanis must transact official busi ness with Karachi in Urdu, the Western language, and not in their native Bengali. The United Front promised to do away with this "colonial status" and to speed up land reform with no compensation to the disliked landlords. East Pakistanis responded by voting the many-sided opposition local control of half of Pakistan. Mohammed Ali, a shrewd politician, had taken to East Pakistan's hustings in person to avert a rout, but not in time. This week he met Suhrawardy to lay the groundwork for settling East Pakistan's legitimate grievances...
...Even at a meeting of President Eisenhower's Cabinet, Secretary Weeks could not escape from the sales campaign. Three members of the Cabinet who used to be in the automobile busi ness (Defense Secretary Wilson, Interior Secretary McKay and Postmaster General Summerfield, all of General Motors) ribbed fellow Cabinet Mem ber Weeks about buying...
...select a particular date on which we must be ready for hostilities down to the last button." Alexander, like Ike, apparently thought that the "crash buildup" policy under which the West geared its rearmament to a nicely calculated schedule of "years of maximum danger" had outlived its useful ness. "We have substituted, and I say 'we' with emphasis, for the uncontrolled rush to arms at any price, the long view and the steady, calculated buildup." One Alex ander ambition: to build up a mobile strategic reserve in the U.K. This dashed hopes that the two-year draft might...
When a small group tries to speak for the student body, its representative-ness depends on the controversially of the subject. The first sentence of the motion prepared by the committee and passed by the Council last week was hardly controversial. "We approve," it said, "of the manner in which President Pusey has answered the recent charges by Senator McCarthy that there are Communists on the University's Faculty, and we have complete confidence in the fact that this University is absolutely, unalterably, and finally opposed to Communism...
Since the Digest is the official publication of the Democratic National Committee, it is of necessity propaganda. But well-written propaganda, presented with a slick ness of style occasionally reminiscent of the New Yorker, even imitating it, such as in short quips and jibes under "Talk of the Nation." There are parodies each month. In November's issue, the man in the Hathaway shirt peered through his one good eye and said, "It takes me twice as long to read the Digest, but it's worth the time." A column, "Inside," scoffed at Newsweek's periscope ("Fewer erasers are being...