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With only two days remaining before the close of nominations, eight members of the Swedish Parliament recommended Martin Luther King Jr., 35, for the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. The Southern leader of the U.S. Negro's drive for integration should be considered, said the legislators, because he "had succeeded in keeping his followers to the principle of nonviolence. Without King's confirmed conviction of the justification and effectiveness of this principle, demonstrations and marches could easily have become violent and ended with the spilling of blood...
...rose in the House of Commons two weeks ago and pronounced resale price maintenance "incompatible with our objective of encouraging effective competition and keeping down costs and prices." Despite lingering Tory doubts, Prime Minister Douglas-Home stood firmly behind Heath, who promised that a bill would be ready for Parliament's consideration within a fortnight. "It cannot be in the interests of the consumer," said Douglas-Home, "to peg prices at artificially high levels...
Leave it to the Dutch to be different. While industry is being nationalized from Italy to Indonesia, The Netherlands has decided to move in just the opposite direction. Before the Dutch Parliament this week is a bill that will make a private company out of the government-held Dutch State Mines, a $300 million organization. The move, which would be equivalent in the U.S. to sending the Tennessee Valley Authority off on its own, is supported by all political parties except the inconsequential Communists. The reason is that the Dutch understand what nationalizers do not: in today's highly...
...spite of such broad activities, DSM's board still has to seek approval from the Minister of Economic Affairs for any expenditure of more than $25,000, must wait for a snail-paced Parliament to approve partnerships with private companies (recent examples: Dow Chemical, Pittsburgh Plate Glass). Many firms are reluctant to enter into deals that require excessive red tape and government scrutiny. Largely for such reasons, the Dutch decided on "privatization." For the time being, the government will remain DSM's only stockholder. But in all other respects, DSM President Antoine C. Rottier and his four vice...
...Common Market Commission's financial vice president, Robert Marjolin, is a Jeremiah who takes any opportunity to cajole or frighten the member nations into closer cooperation and more central planning. In Strasbourg to deliver his annual economic report to the European Parliament last week, Marjolin warned the Six of galloping inflation that threatens the Market's whole structure...