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...spread of nuclear weapons. In the past, party officials have seriously discussed pooling forces to put up "Lib-Lab" candidates at the next election. However, Liberal Party Leader Jo Grimond last week took full advantage of the Socialists' disastrous disarray on Common Market membership. Pressing home his bluntest attacks yet on Labor, Grimond declared: "The Labor Party is losing its soul-just as the Liberals are gaining their feet...
Thus the President's Commission on National Goals this week put a challenge to the U.S. in the bluntest terms to come out of an official document in the Eisenhower Administration. Established by President Eisenhower last February, the commission, headed by Henry M. Wriston, president-emeritus of Brown University,† had as its charter the development of a "broad outline of national objectives and programs for the next decade and longer." The Wriston Report not only fulfills that requirement but details some hard specifics and boldface imperatives. Items...
Last week, in the bluntest language yet employed in public, the U.S. told its economic partners that the time has tome when they have got to take on their share of helping other nations, above all the newly independent countries, where continued political independence depends on economic stability and growth. The U.S. spoke out in Washington at the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the two agencies that together comprise a board of trustees for the capitalist system...
History Teaches ... In fact, Khrushchev seemed clearly less irked by Poland's determination to remain this side of the Communist agricultural paradise than by Red China's earlier insistence that it would reach Marxism's pearly gates ahead of Russia itself. In his bluntest assault yet on Mao Tse-tung's rural communes, Khrushchev recalled that soon after the Bolshevik Revolution, some Soviet leaders had also decided that the way to achieve true Communism was by herding the peasantry into communes. "Well, they organized communes," he said. "But neither the material nor political conditions...
First out of the box at the presidential press conference last week was one of the bluntest political questions Dwight Eisenhower had ever faced: How does he feel about the complaints by two G.O.P. right-wingers, Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater and Pennsylvania's Congressman Richard Simpson, that the President's party leadership is weak? All week long the White House staff had been steaming about the Old Guard mutterings against the President at the G.O.P. National Committee meeting in Des Moines (TIME...