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...year there has been an increasingly discernable split in the British Labor Party; last week, as was virtually inevitable, the split widened into a chasm. The annual Party conference shoved unilateralism into the protesting, mouths of its Parliamentary leaders, and voted a policy which if carried out by a Labour Government would mean Britain's withdrawal from NATO...
...lucrative to cheat: Bear not false witness; let the lie Have time on its own wings to fly: Thou shalt not covet; but tradition Approves all forms of competition. The sum of all is, thou shalt love If anybody, God above: At any rate, shalt never labour More than thyself to love thy neighbour...
...next few weeks, Gene was happier than he had been in two years. Several of his friends visited him and related news of the outside world. ("Professor Levin read us all of Love's Labour's Lost today.") A Yalie, who had somehow heard of Gene's plan sent him a Care package with a letter of encouragement. Gradually, Gene began to vary his diet, and at the end of a week, was familiar with Chinese, Armenian, French, and Greek food. He read The Autobiography of Alice B. Tolkas, U.S.A., all of Marlowe's plays, Jane Eyre, To the Lighthouse...
...each term, the 50 juniors in the School divide into three groups of approximately 17 students. This fall two Conferences are engaged in a study of "Combatting Inflation in the American Government," while the other is concerned with "Recent Changes in British Society" and the future of the British Labour Party. After an organization meeting early in the term, a stiff basic reading list is assigned, and students are given three weeks to complete...
...Labour Party, shaken by its fourth decline in as many elections, must now resolve its feuds and discover a new appeal to England's decreasingly class-conscious electorate. Jo Grimmond's reviving Liberals, if they are to regain a really challenging role in British politics, now have the chance to demonstrate that they are a party of principles, and not merely a vehicle of dissatisfaction...