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Coalition Dilemma. Said Premier Bidault last week: "We must govern in the center with the aid of the right to reach the goals of the left." This Gallic triple-talk indicated the weakness of the coalition that Bidault must depend upon to govern. As long as the present Chamber of Deputies exists, only patchwork coalitions of devious and delicate compromise will be possible. An increasing number of deputies want to dissolve the Chamber and hold new elections. Yet that would do little good unless there were a change in France's basic electoral law. The present law, providing...
Burma is the most distressful country that ever I have seen. Its government, in Burma's nearly two years of independence from the British Commonwealth, does not govern. Its economy is falling apart. Its communications are cut. Its civil war is not a war but chaos. "Of 21 stations in my charge," said a Burmese police superintendent, "I hold only six. The other 15 are held by five different kinds of insurgents...
...most hotly debated questions in psychiatric circles is how much harm, as well as good, is done to mental patients by prefrontal lobotomy-an operation inside the skull which cuts the lines of communication between some of the parts of the brain which govern social behavior. Now a closely related issue is to be threshed out in the courts: Does a normal, sane man suffer irreparable injury when such an operation is performed...
...Paris everybody knows the Château de la Muette as a mansion of the De Rothschilds. Last week the men who now govern Europe's finances sat in the same gilt & cream chamber where the De Rothschilds once practiced their financial wizardry.* Delegates from 19 OEEC areas had come to La Muette to work out a new Intra-European Payments plan. After hours of futile argument, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak suggested that the meeting adjourn. Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps cut him short with a crisp insistence. "Gentlemen, I have to go back to England...
...chances of returning home were still doubtful. The Catholics missed by three votes the 107 needed for a clear majority of the Lower Chamber. Probably more than three Liberals would be willing to join with them in voting for a plebiscite on Leopold. The Catholics, however, would rather govern in continued coalition with the Socialists (66 deputies) than with the Liberals (30 deputies). On the whole, the election represented an anti-Marxist swing. The rightist Liberal Party made the largest gain, and the Communists suffered the sharpest loss (from 23 seats to 12). Even so, the election was so close...