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Other poetry in Identity includes work by Lowell Edmunds and Mason Harris. Both pieces are technically adequate, but somewhat pedestrian. An interesting and sober review of the recent Editor, by Aden Field, distinguished by its lavish use of such critical catch phrases as "human experience" rounds out the issue...
Among colonies voting an overwhelming (75%) out for the constitution of Premier Charles de Gaulle was parched, sun-baked French Somaliland, an 8,000-square-mile East African land of dry gullies, thorny scrub and shifting sand, on the Gulf of Aden. The out vote was in effect a vote of no for the territory's chief native political leader, Mahmoud Harbi...
...Nasser. Yet when Hammarskjold arrived in Cairo, Nasser evasively refused to commit himself to "radio disarmament," but proclaimed to his assembled United Arab States Council: "We will not put down our arms until the occupation forces withdraw from Jordan, Lebanon, Aden, Oman, Algeria and the entire Arab world." In Damascus, the Nasser-controlled newspaper Al Nasr kept up the barrage of hate: "The U.A.R. will be unable to prevent the people of Jordan from battling the loss of their independence after years of martyrdom at the hands of a king who is a deviationist and a traitor and who submerged...
...most of this hate, Egyptian officials hotly complained that half a dozen secret radio stations now "attack President Nasser personally in round-the-clock propaganda assaults.'' Pressed for a sample broadcast from the clandestine stations (located, say the Egyptians, on the French Riviera, in Jordan, Lebanon, British Aden, Cyprus and Kenya), the officials produced the following: "Nasser is a criminal who forcibly became the leader of his country. Nasser's gangs are never successful except in destruction, ruin and bankruptcy. Dear, sweet Jimmy Boy Nasser, a curse be upon you, a plague be upon...
...women from 20 nations, were transferred from the overcrowded freighter to the Italian liner Roma, bound for Europe. Few of Roma's waiters, stewards, cooks and deckhands got more than four hours' sleep in the three days they cared for the survivors before putting them ashore at Aden, where volunteer relief committees had prepared a newly finished hospital and a girls' school to shelter them...