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...Philosophy Is Born. Some light is shed on the new philosophy by the way in which Sébille, anxious to clamber on to the lurching bandwagon of postwar Parisian culture, hit upon its name. One day Sébille met a charming girl in an existentialist bar. Said he: "After dinner I proposed to her that we get to know each other more intimately. She replied with a disarming smile: 'Of course. I'm an intimatist.' The name of my philosophy was found...
...roost alone, whether he is a pro-Pakistan prince, whether he is an anti-Pakistan prince, or whether he is the type of prince who believes that Congress is going to be all-powerful in the new India and hence thinks he had better get on the Congress bandwagon...
Heading the bandwagon faction last week was His Highness the Maharaja of Bikaner. Bikaner, an expert shot who has decked his halls with heads and skins of 75 species of game shot in twelve countries, has decided that the best way to save his own skin is to team up with the Congress Party. Last week, when obstructionist highnesses were plugging for a united stand against the anti-princely Congress, Bikaner dramatically walked out, later announced that he was sending his representative to sit in the Constituent Assembly when it next meets, on April 28. By session...
United Front. Promptly Colombia's small but active Communist Party (it claims 5.000 members but controls the C.T.C., the national labor federation) stopped shooting at the Gaitan bandwagon and climbed aboard. Together, Communists and Gaitan followers have now achieved a popular front agreement against both Liberals and Conservatives...
Intense activity during the past four months has plunged the organization into the thick of state, national, and University progressive action. In a door-bell ringing campaign during October and November, Liberal Union men clambered on the state political bandwagon, supporting Martha Sharp and Oliver S. Allen for seats in the House. Both were defeated by incumbents Joseph Martin and Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers...