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...NATO and other internationalist policies, piped the party down the road to timorous isolation from Europe. Hugh Gaitskell's fiercest foes, the leftists who still repeat the late Aneurin Bevan's taunt that he is "a desiccated calculating machine," led tumultuous rounds of applause for every backward step he took...
Dragged Governor. As the British prepared last month to ram the federation proposal through Aden's Legislative Council, Labor Boss Asnag whipped up excitement at a series of rallies. "This is not unity but slavery!" he cried. "Instead of more freedom we get less. We are going backward. From a British colony we are now becoming a protectorate of the British and the sheiks!" When Asnag told the crowds, "You are the people and can do anything; you can hang your enemies and drag ministers, even the British Governor himself, through the streets," he was jailed for incitement...
Mecham demanded that the U.S. withdraw immediately from the United Nations, raked the Supreme Court with the accusation that in its school prayer decision it had "leaned over backward to slap God in the face." Said Mecham of the Kennedy Administration: "I can't believe our leaders are traitors, as some have charged, but they certainly must be uninformed when the President refers to the nation's businessmen as s.o.b.s." Like Shadegg, Mecham circulated photos of himself with Goldwater...
...Britain's realignment with Europe and away from her Afro-Asian partners will only deepen the chasm that divides the underdeveloped southern nations and the affluent Northern Hemisphere. Said Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan: "You cannot expect friendly coexistence between those countries that are deliberately kept backward and the ones that are bulging with wealth." Black Africa's "uncommitted" Commonwealth members, notably Tanganyika and Nigeria, stoutly rejected Europe's offer of "associate membership" in the Common Market on the theory that this would tie their policies to Western Europe, NATO and "economic imperialism...
With bizarre hints and happenings (when Merricat orders a leg of lamb at the local store, the other customers gasp with horror) Miss Jackson tantalizingly builds up a picture of a household besieged by anger from without and fear from within. Creating a cross-rough of curiosity-backward in time to whatever dreadful event has brought the Black-woods to their present predicament, forward to some nameless but newly foreshadowed disaster in the future-the book manages the ironic miracle of convincing the reader that a house inhabited by a lunatic, a poisoner and a pyromaniac is a world more...