Word: needs
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...need not have turned out that way. After World War II, Britain had the chance, even the open invitation of the weakened nations across the Channel, to join and assume the leadership of a new united Europe. Britain refused, though Winston Churchill's eloquence rang in the halls of the Council of Europe on behalf of the ideal. Britain's explanation for staying out has always been the theory of the three overlapping circles of British policy. One circle is Britain and its Commonwealth; another is Britain and the U.S.; a third, Britain and Europe. Of these three...
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan now feels the need to draw closer to Europe. When he first came to power after Suez, he gave top priority to repairing Britain's strained U.S. relations. Since his election victory in October, he has shifted his concern to Europe. That was the meaning of Selwyn Lloyd's visit to Paris last week, which produced more assurances than achievement. Next on the agenda: a long-postponed state visit to London this week by Konrad Adenauer...
Though the emergency would officially be over, some key temporary powers would be transferred onto Kenya's regular statute books, including permits for political meetings and restrictions on forming African political parties. Said Sir Patrick: "I hope experience will show me that I do not need the use of these controls...
...reply to the U.S. protest, Cuban Minister of State Raúl Roa delivered an 18-page "white paper," rewriting history, charging economic aggression and warning that Cuba will buy arms and planes "from whoever may be willing to supply them," i.e., Russia, if need be. He patted Cuba's new government on the back for "unequaled sportsmanship" in remaining friendly to the U.S. people, recounted "sacrifices" Cuba had made, e.g., selling sugar at low prices to the U.S. during two world wars. He brushed off Cuba's expropriation of U.S. property as involving only "transitory interests...
...pigs root through his crumbling office. "It's here," he says. "No doubt about it-all the riches on earth. I don't know how to get it out, but dammit"-he pounded his desk so hard the Scotch bottle jumped-"it's here! We need men, real...