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...speechmaking began, with more local-fence mending. Venerable Leverett Saltonstall waved to the cheering party workers and blessed Richard Nixon. Brooke said it was "a great day for Massachusetts." "We love you, Pat and Dick," he cooed. Then Volpe came on, telling about Nixon's visit to the Commonwealth in 1952. "We took a drive through East Boston then," Volpe said. Immediate cheers from the East Boston delegation...
...Soviets have always regarded it their duty to defend Communism against the imperialists. But now, as enunciated by Soviet Foreign Secretary Andrei Gromyko at the U.N. and by Pravda, the official party newspaper, the Soviet Union asserts the right to intervene in any member country of the Socialist Commonwealth where the purity or supremacy of the party might be threatened. Diplomats are uncertain whether the pronouncement represents only an after-the-fact rationalization for the invasion of Czechoslovakia or whether it is a major development in Soviet doctrine that could justify the dispatch of Red Army troops into other socialist...
...popularity remains so high among Czechoslovaks that any move to overthrow him would most likely require direct Soviet military action and perhaps even the creation of a military government. Under those circumstances, the Kremlin leaders still seem reluctant to pursue their claims of total domination of the Socialist Commonwealth to the final logical, if bloody, conclusion...
...with good reason. Since Rhodesia declared its independence in 1965, Wilson's war of economic sanctions has cost Britain an estimated $500 million in lost trade with Rhodesia. The failure of the sanctions has diminished Wilson's stature at home and Britain's standing with its Commonwealth allies. With South Africa's aid, Rhodesia has weathered the sanctions and could for all practical purposes simply declare itself a republic. It is already preparing a new green and white flag and a new constitution that would guarantee white supremacy forever...
...Commonwealth Wrath. The openings for negotiation at Gibraltar remained as small as the stakes were large. "If I give way on any vital point," said Smith, "I might find 100% of Rhodesians against acceptance." Yet if Wilson backed down, he would have to face the wrath of black nations in the Commonwealth and, humiliatingly, ask the United Nations to withdraw its sanctions. Also, he presumably does not wish to be remembered as the Prime Minister who consigned Rhodesia's black majority to the same apartheid fate as that endured by the blacks of South Africa...