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Diversionary Actions. Just now the Union Minière is not producing any copper; its installations at Elisabethville and Jadotville, now under U.N. control, have been temporarily damaged, and its Kolwezi facilities are occupied by the Katanga gendarmerie. But with its usual instinct for survival, the company has labored to appease both sides. At the big Jadotville copper and cobalt plant, Union Minière officials thwarted the "scorched earth" tactics of Tshombe's men by directing them to relatively easily replaceable facilities which were damaged with much fanfare. Shortly later, the same officials, many of whom had long...
Probably no British government, faced with such momentous and obdurate problems, could have had an easy time of it. Macmillan has found it particularly difficult, the Economist suggested last week, because by instinct and intellect he is more enthused by "sepia illustrations of great moments in British history" than by the unique opportunity that has been offered his nation to help unite Europe and to serve as its bridge to the rest of the free world. Instead, Harold Macmillan for the past six years has chosen to emphasize Britain's "special relationship" with...
Miss Mead turned to the question of "the relationship of war to man's aggressive impulses" and concluded that "modern warfare is not a hypertrophy of aggression, but a hypertrophy of idealism. The natural, self-less instinct of men to protect women and children" is at the core of this idealism, she said...
Nationalism is an anachronism-our paramount loyalty is to the human race." But Toynbee overlooks the basic human impulse which, so far at least, seems to find greatest satisfaction in a nation of common instinct and common creed...
...preoccupation with death. He describes his own act of painting as "a kind of fidgeting to make the figure emerge. I put in, I wipe out, I put back in. I change the shape of the shoulders, move the nose up and down." Jones's esthetic instinct is satisfied only after he has achieved the ectopasmic ambiguity that is his hallmark. "The figure is woven into the fabric of the surface," he explains. "The figures are hinged onto this darkness the way people are hinged onto life...