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Abba Eban was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1915. He moved on to London in 1922, studied and later taught Arabic, Hebrew and Persian at Cambridge. He once debated the case that the British educational system at Cambridge was insupportable "because it professed to educate a governing class which could not govern." Eban went to the World
...also a fact that the Petrov disclosures had led to no arrests. But to suggest that the word of Moscow should be solicited, let alone be taken seriously, displayed at the least a queer and profound naiveté on the part of a longtime high minister who aspired to govern Australia. It seemed a blunder that could wreck the Labor Party's chances of achieving office for some time to come. At any rate, the issue, all hotted up by Evatt's dealings with Molotov, offered too good an opportunity for the Liberals to pass up. Last week...
...party central committee, later expelled nine other Deputies from the party. Next day, ten more Deputies quit the party with an angry cry of "dictatorship." But even though his popular and political support may have slumped, there are no Turks in view to challenge Menderes for the right to govern Turkey...
...Deputies returned to their constituencies to consider the fate of France's 21st government in nine years. In their absence, Premier Faure, to present returning Deputies with the sense of something being accomplished, pushed and prodded until at last he was able to announce that the long-promised throne council had been set up to govern Morocco...
...only natural that in return for all this responsibility, The Company has required increasing authority; in fact, The Company and Company Law have come to govern the world, for this is the only really effective way to minimize the danger of war and its surely bankrupting deluge of Blue Bolt claims...