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Labor Split. Apparently the Foreign Ministers misjudged the amount of agreement they would get among their countrymen. In Britain, the obvious lesson of Berlin had indeed convinced Clement Attlee and his Labor Party leadership; but it made no impression whatever on a great number of his followers. Last week the issue split the Labor Party from top to bottom, came within two votes of overturning Attlee's leadership...
Souvenir hunters plagued the tree until the Cambridge government confiscated the remains. Hoping to make the Elm myth "an object lesson in patriotism for the whole country," officials sent fragments to each of the forty-eight governors, a polished cross-section to Mount Vernon, and thirty-two inscribed blocks abroad. They also presented two gavels of Washington Elm to each state legislature. All that remained to mark the tree site was a bronze disk, resembling a manhole cover, in the middle of Garden street...
Over the years, the policy of the College, if somewhat vague, has been of the same tone as the "Bender Rule." Only once in recent years has the College barred a speaker of unpopular views from University buildings. And the storm the incident provoked yielded a well-learned lesson for the College. The man about whom the controversy centered was the American Communist, Earl Browder...
This is an illustration of the fact that despite the pressures of an undeclared war with Russia, the fundamental sense of justice of the American people can still make itself felt to prevent wholesale informing. The Norwalk fiasco should be a lesson to well-meaning groups that there are limits to subversive hunting. It should also prove to the people who fear America is moving toward Fascism that they are overstating the case. 1984 is still a long...
...working hard and doing well, the 50 million free enterprisers in West Germany have already written a lesson not only for their 17 million countrymen in East Germany but for other European nations still hobbled by all manner of production and currency controls...