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Aref, a thrusting young Arab nationalist, fell because he tried to force Iraq into a quick union with Nasser's United Arab Republic. An Iraqi nationalist before all, Premier Kassem had tried to divest his friend by exiling him to the ambassadorship to West Germany. When Aref returned without permission at an awkward time, the Premier ordered his arrest. Kassem had decided personally, said the prosecutor, not to divulge "details" of Aref's trial, "in the interests of Arab solidarity." Nor was any sentence made public, though for treason there is usually only one punishment, and that quite...
Loud Whistle. But things went wrong. Hlasko put in a long-distance call to his sick mother and sister in Warsaw. He reported to a friend: "My mother said she is afraid she will never see me again. What could I tell her?" He became bored with the language lessons and abandoned them. He became a dreaded guest at parties given by Polish emigres. At one he began whistling through his fingers like "a Warsaw hooligan." When another guest proved he could whistle louder, Marek furiously overturned the table, smashing liquor bottles and china. The U.S. foundation quietly backed...
...lost weekend, he surfaced at Tempelhof airdrome with a flight ticket to Tel Aviv and an Israeli tourist visa good until March. Landing in Israel last week, unshaven and fatigued, Hlasko holed up in an obscure hotel for 24 hours before joining up with Jan Rojewski, an old Polish friend who now lives in an Israeli kibbutz...
...Backbencher Tory Nicolson publicly criticized Sir Anthony Eden's Suez invasion. Outraged, local Tory leaders formally forbade members of the local party to have any contact with him, and pointedly announced that in the next election, Bournemouth East's Tory candidate would be Major James Friend -a huntin' and shootin' Staffordshire squire given to sweeping reflections on Britain's imperial glory...
Retreat. Fortnight ago, the Tory brass of Bournemouth sank into deeper trouble. Major Friend, they learned, was in close cahoots with the League of Empire Loyalists, a quasi-fascist group that recently heckled Tory Prime Minister Harold Macmillan himself. Friend, it turned out, had written letters arranging that every time Nigel Nicolson tried to hold a meeting, the Loyalists would break it up with their heckling and roughhousing. Unhappily, the Bournemouth East Conservative Association accepted Major Friend's withdrawal...