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Jenkins' break with Wilson was quickly followed by the sympathetic resignations of seven other members of the Labor shadow cabinet, including Defense Experts, George Thomson and Lord Chalfont. The stunning move shattered the facade of Labor unity and cast the party into its most vituperative intramural quarrel in two decades...
TOWN MEETING OF THE WORLD (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The Early Bird satellite relays a transatlantic discussion about nuclear controls between Senator Robert Kennedy in the U.S., French General Pierre Gallois in Paris, German Politician Franz Josef Strauss in Munich, and British Diplomat Lord Chalfont in Geneva...
...recedes, the danger now and for years to come is not only that Communist China will develop and deploy an atomic arsenal, but that a succession of smaller nations will be under increasing and perhaps irresistible pressure to join the nuclear arms race. Britain's Disarmament Minister, Lord Chalfont, described this prospect last week as "the principal and most urgent problem facing us today." Chalfont thus echoed his opposite number, William C. Foster, director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, who writes in the current Foreign Affairs that the spread of nuclear weapons is "likely...
...million (from a horsecar and trolley fortune inherited from her grandfather William C. Whitney, Secretary of the Navy in Grover Cleveland's Cabinet), saddled the winners of 1,532 races, including the peerless Golden Miller, winner of the Grand National in 1934; of a heart attack; in Chalfont St. Giles, England...
When reporters caught up with him a few hours later in the London suburb of Chalfont St. Peter, his sister-in-law at first denied that he was in her home, then the following day handed out a typewritten statement signed "A. N. May": "I myself think that I acted rightly and I believe many others think so too." May tried to justify his delivery of vital atomic information to Russian espionage agents (TIME, Jan. 5) by saying: "I was wholeheartedly concerned with securing victory over Nazi Germany and Japan . . . My object now is to obtain as soon as possible...