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...Senate aisle from Knowland sat a man who shrewdly sensed the fence sitters' quandary. And Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson, who had staked out a role for himself as compromiser, set about trying to get passed the kind of jury-trial amendment that Dick Russell and his diehard Southerners would not filibuster against. Johnson's solution: to lure the doubtful and undecided, he would try to sweeten the jury-trial amendment by adding some kind of "new civil right...
...face of government efforts to refuse all pay raises as inflationary is a risky business for any elected politician. Last week, as Macmillan announced the details of the new pay scale worked out by both parties ($4,900 yearly base pay and expenses for all M.P.s*), one diehard Liberal gruffed sternly that it would be better "if in future the government does not pursue policies which lead to a devaluation of money." Ignoring this jarring note, Macmillan remarked that he hoped Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell would live "to enjoy this slight addition to his salary for very many years...
...victory was the first and easiest of the four Senate hurdles that the Administration's program faces. Next week the committee's recommendation will go to the Senate floor, where such diehard foreign-aid enemies as Indiana's Jenner and Nevada's Malone lie in wait. Moreover, the Senate Appropriations Committee has yet to count out the actual money, and after that an economy-minded Senate will have to vote the funds...
Poland's diehard Stalinists had been waiting the opportune moment to make a comeback. In the seven months of Wladyslaw Gomulka's leadership, no longer tied to Moscow or supported by police terror, the Polish Communist Party had lost much of its former authority and force. The time had come, said one opportunistic Communist leader, Boleslaw Piasecki, to end the "ideological chaos" and get closer to the Soviet Union...
What was going on was an unparalleled historic phenomenon which some in Britain, greatest of the West's colonial powers, like to call "creative abdication"'(to the unconcealed horror of diehard imperialists, who see only retreat). In places where British governments and proconsuls had bungled, "creative abdication" was a euphemism for a hasty cutting of losses. But in other places it represented a conscientious attempt to surrender an outdated authority to win a new relationship more valued because it was volunteered. One way or another in the twelve years since World War II-years during which Russia enslaved...