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...these complicated crosscurrents lay behind Britain's decision to take sides, behind Dulles' determination "to continue to take a position of neutrality," and behind the angry rift between the two partners...
Adlai Stevenson and other "moderate" Democratic leaders have tried, understandably, to ignore the growing rift between the pro-Negro and anti-Negro wings of the party. Signs now appear that this will be more and more difficult. Adlai Stevenson finds himself cast as a villain by the liberal magazine Frontier, "the Voice of the New West." Cried Frontier last month: "As long as small colored boys can be murdered in Mississippi without protection of the law, Stevenson's moderate approach to reform will strike most Negroes as distressingly inadequate. And Stevenson's frequent trips into the South, along...
Keeping the Peace. Two weeks from now the U.S.-British rift will come up for mending, when Prime Minister Eden visits President Eisenhower in Washington. The fears and feelings of U.S. allies are important, but against them must be balanced the necessity of keeping before the world's mind the central fact of the peace: Communist aggression has been deterred only by the willingness and the ability of the free world to go to war rather than cringe before the threats...
Papering Over. Labor's first disadvantage is its divided house. Nye Bevan is playing the good boy now. The party rift has been papered over with an innocuous manifesto composed at the leadership's bidding by two of the noisiest Bevanites : Richard Grossman and Tom Driberg...
...burly, boyish-faced farmer from the upcountry hills of Kenya stood before an audience of diehard settler folk in the Rift Valley town of Nakuru (pop. 22,481). He was Michael Blundell, 48, Minister without Portfolio in the Kenya government, come home to ask his constituents for a vote of confidence. Blundell has decided that the 2½-year-old Mau Mau war can no longer be won by bullets. One of Kenya's wealthiest farmers, Yorkshire-born Blundell was seeking support for his policy of giving the colony's 6,000,000 Africans and 100,000 Indians...