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...Shoot the Monkey. Amid Labor yells of "Salisbury!" and "Mind your back!" Macmillan plodded through a lackluster rebuttal, the gist of which was that things were not so bad as Gaitskell made out. With even less success, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd (whose early resignation was now freely predicted by the British press) tried to put a hopeful face on it by saying that "certain practical lessons have been learned about the consequences of the canal being out of operation." Jabbing his finger toward Macmillan, Labor's honey-voiced Aneurin Bevan demolished Lloyd with a single blow. "There...
From Washington last week came word that Laos had got the reassurance it needs. Gist of the State Department note (similar ones went out from Britain and France): the U.S. continues to support the authority of the royal government "over all its territory" and "welcomes the firmness" with which it has resisted the Communist reintegration terms. Net effect of the reassurances: to put the Communists on notice that any dirty work in Laos could easily bring down on them the full force of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization...
...infantry officer (4th Gurkha Rifles) who now offers the sixth installment of his projected 35-volume epic of the British in India. The book is a reliable old elephant, advancing indomitably over the narrative terrain while throwing the dust of unlikely adventures in the reader's eye. The gist of Far, Far the Mountain Peak is that, given enough rope in India, a cad may climb it-socially...
...Spelled out before a meeting of the U.N. Disarmament Subcommittee in London the new U.S. plan aimed at limiting and eventually halting H-bomb construction. Gist of the plan: the U.S., Britain and Russia, having first agreed on an "effective inspection plan," should 1) halt production of fissionable material for weapons purposes on April 1, 1958, or as soon as possible thereafter upon the ratification of the necessary agreements; and 2) thereafter divert all such nuclear production to peaceful purposes. Net effect of the plan: while allowing the big powers to hang on to nuclear weapons stockpiled before...
...Armed Services Committee considered the promotion of Brigadier General Ralph Zwicker to major general. On McCarthy's insistence, the committee summoned General Zwicker back from Japan to defend himself on charges made by his old antagonist at the Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954. Gist of the charges: Zwicker had "clearly lied" to the McCarthy investigations subcommittee about the circumstances leading to the promotion of Major Irving Peress, a dental officer accused as a Communist. The committee's decision, reached after a two-day, closed-door session: a unanimous (12-to-0) vote to approve the Zwicker promotion. Editorialized...