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Alistair Cooke (Sun. 9:45 p.m., ABC). Literate and witty comment by an Anglo-American newsman...
...secret of his campaign to wrest the party from Moderate Clement Attlee. The Bevan wing demanded a tough vote of censure against Churchill, against the U.S. bombing raids on the Yalu River power plants (TIME, July 7) and against the U.S. conduct of the Korean war. Attlee, concerned for Anglo-American solidarity, adamantly refused to join the movement. He favored only a mild motion censuring Churchill for having failed to get advance notice of the raids. In the angry party showdown, Attlee won, 101 to 52-but some 60 non-Bevanite Laborites abstained rather than support Attlee's leadership...
...nonentity to Washington, the Russians are plainly saying that they expect to accomplish more mischief in Britain than in the U.S. What mischief? Driving a wedge between the U.S. and Britain. Along with the diplomatic switch last week, both Pravda and Izvestia began playing up stories of "intensified Anglo-American contradictions." Andrei Gromyko presumably goes to London to hold the wedge for the Kremlin's busy hammer-swingers...
Reid also said he had no worries about the future state of Anglo-American relations. "The history of Britain's affairs with America has shown that both countries have come to realize that they have to get along with each other," Reid said. "That's especially true in the current world situation." He indicated that he thought Britain's role could only be that of a buffer force between the temperaments of Russia and this country...
...selection of Harvard for this project was based on the extensive law library containing 400,000 volumes of Anglo-American Law, 350,000 volumes on foreign law, and the number of graduate law students from foreign countries...