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...predicted: "Nasser or Eden out of power by October." At a Socialist rally in Caterham, the Labor Party's foreign-affairs spokesman, Alfred Robens, cried that if peaceful negotiations with Nasser failed, Anthony Eden "has no alternative but to resign." One lover of historical irony, harking back to Ethiopian War days of Eden the boy-wonder diplomat, announced that Eden was about to end his career as he began it, talking about sanctions that he can't deliver...
While the prepared addresses were for the most part dispassionate, the question period brought sharp attack on Griffin from an Ethiopian student at the Law School. Seyoum Haregot 2L asked the Governor, "Do you think, after listening to you, I should go back to my people and say that we should go along with the United States when down in your part of the country they call us 'niggers...
Died. Stanley H. Jevons, 79, noted British social scientist and expert on Indian economic affairs, British adviser to the Ethiopian embassy; in London...
...Tory economics, urging a society that would be "neither jungle nor beehive." He once attacked the whole government bench as "a row of disused slag heaps," and said the party was "dominated by second-class brewers and company promoters." He protested Baldwin's appeasement of Italy in the Ethiopian war by "renouncing the whip," choosing the role of parliamentary independent almost two years before Eden's better-remembered withdrawal from the Chamberlain cabinet...
...bush, and now owns 1,200 acres of asparagus, pyrethrum (a plant from which insecticides are made) and dairy-cattle country in the lush Subukia valley. In World War II, he molded a pioneer battalion of brawny East African tribesmen into a crack combat unit, led them through the Ethiopian campaign. Blundell's business connections (breweries, newspapers, canneries) and his bluff man-to-man likableness soon won him the job of leader of the white settlers in the Kenya legislature...