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Billy Graham has currently drawn much bigger crowds on his preaching tour of Great Britain than Labour and Conservative campaigners for the oncoming election. But tomorrow polling booths will replace soapboxes and even the pulpit as the center of attention. Tory defenders and Socialist contenders will wage their final battle on each Britisher's ballot. Yet the very fact of Graham's large turnouts suggests that few election issues have been not enough to divert interest from him. Although some Labourites, like Aneurin Bevan, have themselves campaigned as evangelists, the general prediction of both bookies and "univacs" is that Britain...
...life, a river of genius," but no one knew whether to laugh or cry when "it turned out that the Russian was reading the part . . . that condemned the Germans ... for taking men and women away from, their homes and sending them to distant camps where they worked as slave labour...
...better for their children to get secondary education than to pass directly from primary school to workbench. Castigating these outworn ideas, the official Communist newspaper warns parents that only a few children can go to secondary schools, and that the party and government will show them that juvenile labour is "equally glorious...
...does this "peaceful" government mean to use "the second largest army in the world," which it says it will aim to build? Commander-in-Chief Chu Teh, in his Army Day speech last week, promised that Formosa will soon be liberated. The Labour leaders can read for themselves that under the new Peking constitution the millions of Chinese in Siam, Burma, Indonesia and Malaya, "neglected" by earlier governments, will now be "protected" by Mao Tse-tung's regime. This hardly squares with Chou En-lai's simultaneous protestations to the Burmese and Indian prime ministers about peaceful...
There are many other matters to which the Labour leaders might direct their curiosity. They might-if they can -seek out Kao Kang, who was the much-lauded ruler of Manchuria until this year he committed the unpardonable sin of "standing up against the party." Mr. Bevan should find this an enlightening interview. They might contrast the official announcement at the end of June that, "for the first time in many centuries," the peasants along the Huai river could now live without fear of floods, with the devastation that has since struck the area. They might raise the question...