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Oddly enough, neither Farmer nor Labor Candidate Niall MacDermot (a Cambridge-educated barrister) had a thing to say about Suez. The issue at stake was far closer to the British home and pocketbook: rent control. Last week, despite some timid objections from the back benches, the Macmillan government was going all out to put through its bill relaxing the controls which have frozen some 6,000,000 British rents at close to prewar levels ever since 1939 (only 6½% of income now goes for rent, as opposed to 11% prewar). The bill would raise the rent ceilings on some...
...Frank MacDermot, a member of the Eire Senate, now in the U.S., wryly admitted: "We claim an overriding right for Irish nationals to commit crimes of violence in British territory that would be punished with the utmost severity at home. The I.R.A. declare that we are at war with Great Britain, and we apparently agree with them to the extent of justifying unofficial Irish acts of war, but it is to be a new and improved sort of war with the violence all on one side...
...well-known Canadian runner will meet Phibbs, the Irish champion in the half-mile run. In the two-mile run, Young and Lloyd are the most prominent entries. In the bicycle race, Kingsland, Powers and Halstead will race. The entries for the running high jump include Webster, Ford and Macdermot. The two hundred and fifty-yards run and the mile walk for novices have very large entry lists...