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...David Ben-Gurion has been the fire brand, Moshe Sharett is the count-the-costs civil servant. He went to Israel from Russia at the age of eleven, and grew up amidst Arab farmers, learning their ways and their tongue. He never forgets that Israel is a tiny island in the Moslem sea. In 1913 Sharett enrolled in law at the University of Constantinople; with the outbreak of the war he was drafted into the Turkish army as an officer, and fought at one time against T. E. Lawrence's Arab irregulars...
...Jewish Brigade within the British army during World War II. In 1946, however, the British imprisoned him for four months on suspicion of condoning terrorism. When Israel became a nation and he its first Foreign Minister, he changed his original Russian name, Shertok, meaning "little devil," to Sharett, meaning "servant...
Last week, citing these and other grim statistics as determined by the government's 1951 census, India's Census Commissioner and a top civil servant, R. A. Gopalaswami, urged his countrymen to do something about "improvident maternity." As things are now going, he estimates that India's population will soar to 520 million by 1981. "Every married couple can have a maximum of three children without creating a national problem," said Gopalaswami, "but we should realize that it is improvident on our part to permit ourselves to increase in numbers indefinitely without taking thought...
...when an NBC candidate seems to slip from the ideal of a public servant, there is an antedote to misgivings in examining the other candidates. It will take more than an NBC to purify Boston politics completely. But the committee is a start, weakened by the lack of patronage, but worthwhile and well-directed. The NBC again deserves the support of the Boston voters for its slate...
Phyllis Povah plays the first wife, and as a simple trusting old lady she is quite good, unless one believes that all simple, trusting old ladies are overacting their parts. Mable Taylor, playing Emmie the family servant, is perhaps the outstanding actress in the show; she is provincial, she is hunched over, she is always properly subservient and sufficiently stupid...