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...prices and pegged wages, the General Council stoutly supported the government's 3½-year-old wage restraint policy. Last week it could hold out against the clamor no longer. The General Council formally demanded that the government okay increases. In prospect: a clash between the unions and Clement Attlee & Co., who fear that wage increases, in Britain's economy, will produce runaway inflation. Attlee will be damned if he gives in, damned if he doesn...
...Coyo's shockingly unethical solution is the core of Clement Richer's novel, which the book jacket accurately calls "an immoral fable for sophisticated people...
...Caribbean mockery and Western sophistication. Author Richer, 37, a native of Martinique who has lived in France since 1927, writes with charm and is tactful enough to keep his fable short. What does it all mean? A satire on imperialism, perhaps, with Ti-Coyo symbolizing the native opportunist? Clement Richer, a nonpolitical fellow who describes himself as a misanthrope, is wise enough not to say; all that can be seen is his literary eye closing in a wink...
...holiday rest, Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee arrived at a resort hotel in Jotunheimen, Norway, where 25 fellow countrymen on tour greeted him with a burst of song ("For he's a jolly good fellow"). Later, starting out on a mountain hike, the Prime Minister firmly refused to wear sunglasses. Said he to his wife: "It seems to me that the world looks too gloomy through them...
Displeased with Shepherd's tactics, Harriman decided to fly to London for face-to-face talks with the British cabinet. At 10 Downing Street, tired, tense Conciliator Harriman met with Prime Minister Clement Attlee and cabinet ministers. Earnest conferences continued for 2½ tense and weary hours. Reportedly, Britain wanted assurances that Iran would 1) stop petty persecutions of British oil personnel, 2) drop its insistence, in negotiations, on the letter of the oil nationalization law, 3) set no preliminary limits on the scope of the negotiations. Next day, the Iranian cabinet met twice, sent reassuring messages to London...