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Amidst the rejoicing over the Douglas appointment, there was a slightly grating note in Anglo-American relations last week. In Parliament Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin charged that Harry Truman and Tom Dewey had played politics last October when they vied with each other in recommending the immediate mass admission of Jews to Palestine...
Soviet Russia insistently asked for air bases on Norway's Arctic archipelago of Spitsbergen. The democratic world, remembering reports that Communist influence had gripped postliberation Norway, waited for Norway's answer. On Feb. 15, in a secret session, the Norwegian Parliament took up neighbor Russia's request. This week Oslo let out the news: Parliament, by 101 votes to 11, had voted "No." The 11, of course, were Communists...
Strong Words. The outburst surprised old (75) Socialist Premier Camille Huysmans. To deputies trapped with him inside Parliament during the riot he said: "We have already spent 7½ billion francs on them. They have no right to complain...
...President Gualberto Villarroel. Hertzog had beat Luis Fernando Guachalla by only 289 votes in the January elections. In return for the settlement made with Guachalla and followers all challenged Guachalla congressmen were to be seated, thus assuring the Guachallistas of at least a fair chance of controlling the new Parliament. Hertzog promised to invite his friend and rival to join his Government and help him deal with such pressing matters as a new tin miners' strike, an Argentine proposal for a trade treaty like the one Peron made with Chile (TIME, Dec. 23) and a flood in tropical Beni...
...which feels the standard socialist urge for state trading, thought this was wonderful. No one was surprised at that. The surprise was that men who believed in free enterprise and free trading swallowed the bill without a murmur. The only loud protest came from the Progressive Conservatives in Parliament who cried that the "Government was out to outsocialize the socialists." But the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, which represents the farmers, announced that they were "100% behind the bill." The Government had counted on the farmers' long-standing dislike of the feast or famine days of free trading in wheat...