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Says plump, bespectacled Mrs. Shuttle, wife of Cerne Abbas' stationer: "He's a real nice gentleman." She describes how Lord Digby stands behind the van bellowing cheerfully: "What do you want this morning, Mrs. Shuttle?" Mrs. Shuttle gives her order and hands over her shopping basket: "Then, like as not, he'll say, 'Now don't you worry, Mrs. Shuttle, I'll take it for you,' and he marches through the shop into the kitchen with the goods. Now there ain't many people who'd do that for you, lord...
...Basket." In the House of Commons, Morrison defended the "federation" plan under which Palestine would be divided into three zones (TIME, Aug. 5). However, if the U.S. would not concur, His Majesty's Government would have to "reconsider." Winston Churchill put it more bluntly. If the U.S. would not concur, he said, then Britain should dump the matter into the U.S.'s lap and get out of the country. That would effectively answer those who think that Britain is hanging on to Palestine as a military base in lieu of Egypt...
...Laborite backbencher commented on Churchill thus: "The old basket-he's a scoundrel of the deepest dye, but by God, he's put his finger on a few things in this debate." There was also a good deal of approval for Churchill's remarks in the British press. It was noteworthy that no hurrahs at all were forthcoming from the Zionists; their silence contradicted vociferous but unofficial demands that Britain "quit Palestine." They know that if Britain got out of Palestine the Arabs would be on Zion's neck...
Since the days of the Spanish occupation the flat rice paddies of Central Luzon have been the Philippines' main bread basket and bitterest bone of contention. Generations of Filipino landlords and tenant farmers have battled over how the crops should be divided. Always the result has been the same. From each carnage of broken heads emerged fewer and richer landlords, more and poorer croppers...
...Fruit Co. was restoring the Mayan city of Zaculeu, near Huehuetenango. Zaculeu's spectacular pyramid temple is surrounded by a diggers' paradise of lesser temples and altars. (Near by is a court for the breakneck religious ball game which Central Americans believe to be the ancestor of basket ball.) Guatemala is dotted with dead stone cities, and United Fruit has promised a five-year program to put them back in shape...