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Where had Kishi miscalculated? Events had been set in train in mid-May when the Premier told his Liberal Democrats, "We are going to go all out to get the Security Treaty through the Diet." The Socialists went all out to stop him: they blockaded the 76-year-old Speaker of the House in his office; when he was freed by police and entered the chamber, Socialist Deputies nearly strangled him. With only Liberal Democratic Deputies voting, the Security Treaty was approved by a standing vote...
...publishing the Corfield report now, British colonial authorities obviously hoped to head off a welling movement among Kenyan nationalists to force Kenyatta's release. In mid-May African leaders elected Kenyatta head of the new Kenyan African National Union, gave the government in Nairobi a month to release him or face civil disobedience. In rebuttal, the British argue that Kenyatta's release would put a bloody end to Colonial Office plans for Kenya's peaceful transition to independence, and point to the fact that already, fear of the Mau Mau is returning. Last week, following mounting reports...
...moratorium decision left plenty of obstacles still lying in the way of a safe guarded test-ban treaty. For one thing, the Russians may really not want any agreement at all, may be dangling concessions to prolong the talks and thus achieve their original aim of getting the U.S. to halt nuclear tests without any agreement on inspection. On this, the U.S. might get a better reading at the summit in mid-May. But even if President Eisenhower and Premier Khrushchev resolve the basic conflicts on inspection and control measures at the summit, it will still take the test...
...billion, if possible, of the 25-year bonds, but privately will consider the issue a success if it sells only $500 million worth. With the new bonds, the Treasury will also issue $2 billion in 4% notes, thus take care of its major cash needs until mid-May. The Treasury thinks that the long-term bonds should sell well, since the yield on Government bonds last week was under 4¼%. But if the bonds do sell well, it will just about end the Treasury's hopes of getting Congress to eliminate the 4¼% ceiling this session...
With the U.S. facing East-West disarmament negotiations in mid-March and a summit meeting in mid-May, Secretary of State Christian A. Herter decided that an official statement of U.S. disarmament goals was urgently needed to clear up confusion both in the U.S. and abroad. Last week, after consulting with President Eisenhower, Herter set forth those goals in a major policy speech to Washington's National Press Club. It was at once a hard-headed warning about the perils of disarmament for disarmament's sake and a misty-eyed vista of a disarmed world patrolled...