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Zanzibar's slide into the Communist camp has been watched with dismay but little action from Washington and London. Though the British publicly pooh-pooh the suggestion that tiny Zanzibar (pop. 315,000) is becoming an African Cuba, they alerted mainland East African governments to the danger of subversion. When the U.S. Ambassador to Kenya, William Attwood, chimed in with a similar warning that Zanzibar should be "a source of concern to Africans," the Revolutionary Council took umbrage. Last week it peremptorily demanded the removal of a $3,000,000 U.S. space-tracking station, one of 16 strung around...
...sent to Parliament a bill that would slap a 25% tax on the yield of German bonds held by foreigners. The tax, which will, in effect, lower the cur rent 6% yield on German securities to an unglamorous 4.5% , was greeted with dismay by foreign bondholders and Ger man bond brokers. Erhard also an nounced a second bill that will please businessmen more; by abolishing the much disliked 2.5% tax on the issue of stocks and bonds floated in Germany, it aims to encourage foreign companies to raise funds in Germany, thus stepping up the export of German capital...
...papal nuncio in Berlin when a distracted SS lieutenant bursts into an afternoon tea and begins a semihysterical recital of the statistical horrors of the "factories of death for people" at Treblinka and Belzec. "I'm sorry . . . why must you come to me?" says the nuncio in visible dismay, advising the SS man to see Herr Hitler. But Father Riccardo is heartstricken and is positive that Pius will protest as soon as he knows...
...Simone wants is to curl up in her plush Paris flat, keeping her children happy and her cupboards full until war's end. When a chance encounter throws Whitman into her lap for safekeeping, Signoret registers magnificent dismay. "I'm not his mother," she objects. Grace à Dieu...
Agony of Laughter. Wallant wrote of suffering; he believed with no sense of dismay that it was man's fate. His first novel, The Human Season, is nothing more than an extended portrayal of the enormous grief of a middle-aged Jewish plumber whose wife has died. The author does not founder in the plumber's sorrow; neither does he regard it with detachment. His view might be that of a loving son or brother who says only, because there is nothing more to say, "This is part of what...