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...through the appearance of division, through weakness and lack of purpose, encourage the Communists to attempt some new act of aggression, this may well trigger off a war, and a war for which we are tragically unprepared. The hazards of flexibility and vacillation are far greater than those of strict adherence to right principles...
...great Kariba Dam (TIME, Dec. 15) went out on strike. Southern Rhodesia, otherwise least affected by trouble because its Africans have always been the least militant, was determined to set an example of toughness for its neighbors. Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead mobilized the white population, slapped a strict censorship on the press, and declared a state of emergency; in one 2 a.m. roundup, his cops grabbed 250 members of the African National Congress and stuck them in jail, incommunicado...
...legislature in 1930, became its speaker in 1939, and in 1942 was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Named chairman of a Select House Committee on Foreign Aid, he led his committee abroad on a survey trip, laid much of the groundwork for the Marshall Plan legislation. So strict were Herter's rules that once, when the committee was traveling abroad, a sign appeared in the Queen Mary's lecture room: "Here sat the Committee on Foreign Aid/And worked like hell while the others played...
...Professor Barber put it, "knowledge does not come in fancy packages." But New College will not wander off into vague experimentalism either. Although strict course requirements, as well as academic departments, will be eliminated, the suggested alternative seems sound...
...Most Humble. If anything goes wrong, the engineers at Bhilai are in touch with the Kremlin by special radio within the hour. The Communists have guaranteed all the equipment they have sent, and they have trained 370 Indians in Russian mills. Soviet experts are under strict orders to let trainees handle as much machinery and press as many buttons as they wish. This does wonders for the confidence of young engineers, who say that in German factories they are treated like sightseers...