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...Huggins' opposite flank stand the bitter leaders of 6,500,000 Africans. They oppose the Federation because it i) removes the benevolent hand of the British Colonial .Office, and 2) transfers "native affairs" to a Central African Parliament dominated by local whites. Fewer than 500 Negroes are eligible to vote in next month's elections, but many more are threatening to make their protests felt through strikes in the copper belt and a campaign of passive resistance. The Negroes have the sympathy, if not the active support, of many British Laborites...
...stop desertions but to keep outsiders from rushing in to join them. Thanks to U.S. military aid. the Turks now have Europe's second-largest standing army (No. 1: Russia): 450,000 soldiers equipped with tanks and jet aircraft to button down the free world's southern flank. A poor nation, Turkey devotes almost 40% of its budget to its defenses, and counts the money well spent, for the nation mortally hates and fears the "Moskofs." Say the Turks: the only way a Moskof can get to Istanbul is by buying a ticket on the Orient Express...
Noting the rise of Communist influence in Iran, on India's other flank, Eisenhower continued: "All of that position around there is very ominous to the U.S., because, if we lost all that, how would the free world hold the rich empire of Indonesia? So you see. somewhere along the line, this must be blocked and it must be blocked now. and that's what we are trying...
When it comes to honoring the pioneer fathers, few U.S. cities can outdo Salem (pop. 43,140), capital of Oregon. A brawny woodsman stands atop the capitol dome; pioneers flank the capitol entrance, a circuit rider sits astride a horse on the capitol grounds, and more pioneers stare bold-eyed from murals on the rotunda walls. Three weeks ago the city got a chance to put up still another tribute to its past, but this time it was a figure that looked strikingly different from the hardy frontiersmen. The statue: a hippy bronze nude by France's great Pierre...
...Ingrate File. While Winchell and Lyons were firing salvos on the artillery range, another-bore cannon moved in on the flank. The New York News's Columnist Ed Sullivan, whose paper objects to his mentioning Winchell by name, blasted a speech Winchell made at a dinner given for him by the Los Angeles Friars Club. Winchell had used the occasion to pummel some of the "ingrates" who surround him, including Drew Pearson. Reported Winchell, reprinting a West Coast newspaper report: " 'WW said [at the Friars' dinner that] Pearson latched onto WW's gimmick of announcing...