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Ever since Aneurin Bevan, labor's hell-raising left-winger, quit the Attlee government last April, he has been working on a manifesto which, friends said, would inject new life into Britain's torpid socialism. Last week Bevan unveiled the manifesto. Title: One Way Only...
...long practiced, but it had never before been put so bluntly, nor had a Socialist resolution ever been so carefully designed to shake Europe's Socialists out of their doctrinaire dreams. Instead of the old tenets ("public ownership of the means of production," etc.) the new Socialist manifesto referred to the "planning of production ... in the interests of the people as a whole . . . Socialist planning does not presuppose public ownership of all the means of production. It is compatible with the existence of private ownership in important fields. [However] the workers must be associated democratically with the direction...
Added the manifesto: individual freedom and political liberties are the supreme moral objectives. The chief evil in the world today is Communism, the "new imperialism . . . founded on a military bureaucracy and a terroristic police." Pacifism, once a keynote in the Socialist choir, was soft-pedaled. British Socialists demanded that Socialists everywhere do their fair share in the military defense against Communist danger...
...Peking government's next step was the widespread publication of a manifesto supposedly written by one Wang Liang-tso, a young parish priest of Szechwan province, calling upon all Chinese Catholics to "build up a new church opposed to the imperialist conspiracy of aggression." The Communist press hailed Father Wang as the founder of an "independent Catholic Church movement...
Only the Beginning. The barracks-bred coup is so common in Latin America that latinos have a word for it: cuartelazo (from cuartel, barrack). Declared the manifesto of Bolivia's new junta: "This is not a cuartelazo.''' According to the junta, "the anarchic tendencies of certain groups" necessitated the army's "temporary presence in power." Authority will be restored "as soon as possible, to him who, by the constitution, has the right...