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With respectability, the FLN leaders have not taken on moderation. Even Host Bourguiba was openly distressed at the FLN's manifesto refusing all negotiations unless France first recognized Algeria's independence. Nor was there any sign that they would call off the savage campaign of terror and murder they have loosed on the rival MNA (a more moderate Algerian nationalist group supported, FLN leaders claim, by the French) in France itself. MNA sympathizers have been gunned down in full daylight on Paris avenues and on Metro platforms. Since the first of the year, 570 Algerians have been murdered...
Last year, after Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin, Giolitti wrote a manifesto demanding party independence from Moscow, and a pledge that the party would seek power democratically and would give up power if democratically defeated. "You can't change the Communist Party by leaving it," Giolitti told his friends. "I want to fight this out openly and honestly within the party." Aware of Giolitti's prestige. Italian Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti responded gingerly. Sitting behind him on the platform at the national Party Congress last December, Togliatti yawned when Giolitti openly demanded that...
...overhear him and prove him wrong. The leftist followers of Aneurin Bevan suspect Gaitskell of trying to make Labor "not a Socialist Party at all but a mere ginger group for making capitalism work more efficiently and humanely." Last week, after much labor, the party brought forth a manifesto on the subject, which the Economist promptly dubbed "Mouse with a Leer...
...their faces hideous as primitive African masks. On seeing the painting, French Painter Georges Braque gasped: "You are asking us to drink petrol in order to spit fire." Today, Demoiselles, which made primitive art an accepted fountainhead of modern art, has only the dated quality of yesteryear's manifesto. But it marked a significant break in art history, ushering in an age in which art is no longer the readily grasped reaffirmation of everyman's vision, but a special hierarchical world into Avhich initiation is required. Reported Gertrude Stein: "Picasso said once that he who created a thing...
Behind the Amis vogue is a conscious retreat from Utopia. The "new men'' have withdrawn from politics-and politics has withdrawn from them. Amis himself spelled it out in a pamphlet entitled Socialism and the Intellectuals. Fumblingly written but painfully sincere, it may be the first authentic manifesto of an apolitical literary age. Amis confesses that he finds politics a bore, and that he votes the Labor ticket as a kind of conditioned reflex-two admissions which infuriated British Laborites and old-line liberals. Analyzing his own apathy, Amis makes the pertinent reflection that intellectuals are political romantics...