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...second anniversary of the dethronement of Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef as head of some 9,000,000 Moroccan Moslems. On Aug. 20, 1953, the French bundled Ben Youssef aboard a DC-3 and exiled him, ostensibly to "save" him from his own people, actually because he supported their demand for more political freedom. So flimsy a pretext was an insult to North Africa's faithful. Morocco's urgent nationalists flatly refused to accept the weak and wizened old man whom Paris foisted on them in Ben Youssef's place. Ben Youssef, never very popular as Sultan...
Joining Issue. Magsaysay, forced to make a stand, said flatly that he did not want Recto on the party's ticket in the November election (TIME, Aug 8). Recto declared open war and began firing hotter and hotter "open letters" at the President's palace. The issue was joined. Last week, as the Nationalist Party held its nominating convention in Manila, the time had come for a test of strength between...
...have the guns now." Hundreds joined, but the I.R.A. was still short of arms. Last October the I.R.A. raided a British army depot at Omagh, Northern Ireland, but twelve of their number were captured by the British. The raid on the British army barracks at Aborfield, England (TIME, Aug. 22) was the I.R.A.'s third daring attempt to get guns for its gunmen...
...week starting Wednesday, Aug. 24. Times are E.D.T., subject to change...
Twelve hundred atomic scientists tucked away their well-filled notebooks, exchanged goodbyes and headed home from Geneva's Palace of Nations. After 13 veil-lifting days of give and take, the first International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy (TIME, Aug. 22) was over. The talk had shed new light on every facet of peacetime atomics, from prospecting for ore to H-power. The last major debate: the biological hazards involved in nonmilitary use of the atom...