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Many of them were of the opinion that the Kabaka had been meddling in politics to divert public attention from the previous frivolity of his personal life. Explaining the government's decision to the Lukiko, Governor Cohen, a close friend of Mutesa II and one of Britain's best colonial administrators, accused the exiled Kabaka of "persistently refusing to accept British decisions...
...element" has never been too effective in keeping the lid on hardly destroys the parallel; especially when the files of the Justice Department and even certain Canadian documents have been invoked to make the explosion more devastating than ever. No move or series of moves could do more to divert attention from the tasks at hand, to preclude a reasoned approach to the problems of world leadership, to increase Americans' capacity to hate and suspect one another. A policy of divide the nation and conquer Congress is short-sighted strategy. It is probably short-sighted tactics too, for such incidents...
...Sweetheart." Democrats responded to last week's Brownell shellburst with a scattershot of contradiction and cries of "politics"; they said that Brownell was merely trying to divert attention from the recent by-election results...
There is an agreement between the proctors and the Princeton police that, in case a riot starts, the police will divert traffic from the college area, prevent townspeople from joining the fun, and leave the actual quashing of the trouble to the proctors. When a Princeton does get in trouble with the town police, Chief Mahan generally turns the culprit over to the proctor, who holds him for the deanery to deal with...
...million a year in trade. Israel needed water for irrigation, but a sensible water development program required mutual agreements with hostile neighbors. Last week, against the objections of Syria and in open defiance of the U.N., Israel went steadily ahead day & night with a canal project to divert part of the Jordan's waters for hydroelectric power, whereupon the State Department announced that it would withhold U.S. economic aid ($65 million last year) until the Israelis stop work on the canal...