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...socialist parties-all faced the same kind of trouble: the noisy outcries of leftist factions demanding that their parties outbid others in proposing compromises with the Russians. In Britain, Hugh Gaitskell challenged the nation's most powerful labor union by sternly rejecting its demand that Britain renounce the H-bomb. In France, Guy Mollet bluntly told his followers that if it is neutralism they want for France, he would quit as leader of the party. In West Germany, Erich Ollenhauer did quit. Putting the pieces together, TIME'S editors found the order of the day for Europe...
...prosperity, too inclined toward neutralism to fit in with the realities of the cold war, are now being rent by dispute. Since their economic doctrines no longer appeal, left-wingers among them have been agitating for a softer cold-war policy to win votes. They cry for banning the H-bomb, for disarmament, for disengagement, for deals with Russia...
...Transport Workers, who by the peculiarity of labor voting, controls a bloc of 1,000,000 out of 6,800,000 votes at Labor Party conventions. Before a wildly cheering conference last week, Cousins baldly threatened the unity of the entire Labor Party by demanding immediate renunciation of the H-bomb. He further denounced the extent of Labor's backing of NATO on the ground that some NATO general might "plunge us into...
...Army Air Service, moved slowly up through the ranks until World War II, when he became a major general. He distinguished himself as a combat commander in Europe and Africa, personally flew General Eisenhower over the D-day beachhead. Later he commanded the joint task force in the first H-bomb tests at Eniwetok. Atoll in 1951. After a brief hitch as head of Lockheed Aircraft's missile division, he returned to Washington...
Talent for Controversy. Sometime Wall Street banker, longtime member (1946-50) and chairman (1953-58) of the Atomic Energy Commission, Lewis L. Strauss made a lot of enemies during his AEC years in the controversies that swirled about him: his winning fight to get an H-bomb program started, the lifting of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance, the Dixon-Yates electric-power contract with AEC. But weighed calmly against his long record of achievement, going back 42 years to his service as secretary to Food Administrator Herbert Hoover in World War I, Strauss's talent...