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...equally militant Protestant backers of the Ulster Defense Association, the moderates now represent a comparatively small segment of organized political opinion. But since the British government presented its White Paper (TIME, April 2), setting the ground rules for elections on June 28, two moderate parties, Alliance and Northern Ireland Labour, as well as a growing number of independent candidates, have been cooperating as never before in an all out vote-getting campaign. Their common aim is to pick up enough seats to capture the balance of power in the expanded regional assembly that will take the place...
...gets the feeling that the women are dealing with comedians who have power, rather than with men who oppose women's suffrage on principle. Because the suffragettes alone are serious, they seem to carry on a solitary battle; neither their one male friend, Keir Hardie (one of the original Labour M.P.'s) played by Peter Wright, nor their foes, the "gents" who praise Mom and embrace the status quo, can match the women in presence or dramatic potency. The men are not strong enough to illustrate Parliament's political treachery or the cruelty of the force-feeding by which they...
...Jenkins, the former Deputy Leader of the British Labour Party has left England on a mysterious trip to Cambridge, Mass., paid for, believe it or not, by Yale University, which is publishing three of his lectures this week...
However, it is far from clear that Orwell would not have enlisted in the cultural cold war, at least at the outset. The evidence is maddeningly contradictory. Orwell engaged in a little red-baiting feud with Konni Zilliacus, a Labour MP, whom he called a "crypto-Communist," a follower of the Soviet line who was, therefore, an enemy of democracy; at the same time, he refused to support a protest against Soviet actions in Eastern Europe because it did not also protest British actions in Greece. In an attack on Zilliacus, he wrote, "the only big political questions...
Wilson--who was Prime Minister from 1964 to 1970 and is now leader of the Labour opposition in Parliament--is delivering the Clayton Memorial Lectures for the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, a joint project of Harvard and Tufts