Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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India's Premier Jawaharlal Nehru, who spent 14 of his 67 years in jail for his political beliefs, and entitled his autobiography Toward Freedom, was not clear about what was happening to freedom in Hungary. So he sent a note to Soviet Premier Bulganin and asked for the facts. Bulganin quickly obliged and Nehru thanked him in a pleasant message ("Your own country has taken a lead in the campaign for peace," but, "as you know, developments [in Hungary] have caused us much concern"). Then Nehru passed on the "facts" to his 377 million people...
...this unresolved note, the Cabinet adjourned. In the House of Commons, the Opposition hammered at the government on the difference between what Eden said and what he did. Eden had said Britain was protecting the canal; but the British broadcasts from Cyprus were telling Egyptians: "You have committed a sin, that is, you placed your confidence in Nasser and his lies." Said Labor's Nye Bevan: "Here you have not a military action to separate Israeli and Egyptian troops. Here you have a declaration of war against the Egyptian government in the most terrible terms...
...that morning, Eden was up, faultlessly dressed, soundly breakfasted. All morning he met with his Cabinet. There was no dispute about how to ans'wer the Russian note. Cabinet members were cheered by the U.S.'s prompt reply that it would oppose Russian intervention and agreed that Bulganin should be told to mind his own business. But the members disputed long over the ceasefire. Butler reiterated his argument that further gains by British arms would not compensate for U.S. and world disapproval. One worry was that protracted fighting might provide the Russians with a pretext to send volunteers...
Then Eden made a blunder. He fol lowed right on by reading his reply to Bulganin's note. Inescapably, the world was left with the impression that only Bulganin's threat had scared Eden into capitulation-an impression that the Russians successfully exploited among the Arabs of the Middle East...
...Lehman-Lazard interests charge that the M-G-M movies made during the tenure of MGM's Production Boss Dore Schary, which dates from 1948, have lost an estimated $25 million. (Schary claims that he went in the red only two years.) The dissidents note that MGM's successful box-office movies, such as The Blackboard Jungle and Trial, have been outnumbered by the flops-The Prodigal, Jupiter's Darling, The Swan, Somebody Up There Likes...