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...Communists first refused to accept their own 347 pro-Communist P.W.s-325 South Koreans, 21 Americans and one Briton-hoping to prove that the U.N. release of the anti-Communist P.W.s was a "violation of the armistice." Their P.W.s would have to stay where they were in the cold, until the nonexistent political conference determined their fate...
...that interested Egyptians most, the evacuation of 80,000 British troops from Suez, Nye treaded so skillfully that London newspapers mistakenly thought he had spoken like an English nationalist. So far as he is concerned, "Egypt has a right to resist conditions she does not like," and Bevan the Briton supports her conditions...
After more than ten years of teaching English literature at Chicago and Cornell, Critic David Daiches of Cambridge University feels sure of one thing: to a Briton, life in the English department of a U.S. university is often a trifle strange. In the Manchester Guardian Weekly, Daiches (rhymes with Hs) describes some of the things that baffle...
...still struggle for freedom. One of these, William Kelly, who contumeliously declared he would never swear allegiance "to a foreign Queen," was, therefor, as reported in your Dec. 14 story, convicted of "sedition" and given choice of binding himself "to be of good behavior" (be a nice, polite Briton) or go, a felon in felon's garb, to a convict prison. From the dock defiant, and vowing he would never accept the ignominious convict's garment wherewith Britain has always insisted on humiliating Irish political prisoners, "cantankerous Kelly chose jail...
...loyal to the British, and chopped off his head. Round their wrists the terrorists wore bangles of human skin, stripped from the flesh of earlier victims. Their commander in chief, scar-faced "General" Dedan Kimathi, had offered them $7 for every dead Kikuyu, $16.80 for every dead Briton...