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When the fight started last fortnight, Aiken brought up his amendment to authorize supports ranging from 80%-90% of parity. Later he made a careful nose count of the Senate, learned that the vote would be too close for comfort. Deciding that the 82½%-90% scale which the House of Representatives had previously voted could carry, Aiken asked Kansas' Andrew Schoeppel to propose it. This shored up Schoeppel's wavering support and clothed the plan with the mantle of a wheat-state Senator. For the prestige of sponsoring the winning compromise, and for the promise of presidential...
Cyprus, a strategically situated island in the eastern Mediterranean, is a place that has been denied even the long-term hope of independence. The British, anxious to strengthen it as a Middle Eastern base now that Suez has gone, fortnight ago classified Cyprus as one of those parts of their empire which will never be allowed to go free. Last week the British-run government of the island, getting specific, forbade Cypriot agitation for Enosis (union) with Greece. Henceforth, Enosis agitation on Cyprus will be punished as seditious...
Moment of Defeat. The decisive argument was provided fortnight ago by the Russians themselves. Molotov dispatched a note asking for a new conference after Geneva on European security (TIME, Aug. 2). It was a clumsy and obvious piece of propaganda. In the Cabinet. Salisbury and Eden pointed out incisively that it added nothing to the very same suggestion the Russians made (and the West rejected) six months ago in Berlin. If that is all the Kremlin is ready to put forward, there was no point in a Churchill-Malenkov talk...
...Churchill's ministers have resigned in the past fortnight. If he intended to stay long, he might have used the occasion for an overdue Cabinet reshuffle. Instead, he merely filled the two vacant posts. The changes...
...helicopter, first flown a fortnight ago. Developing a net 260 h.p., it can carry four passengers. Estimated price...