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Look into the Future. Some observers believe that the social welfare state may destroy democracy in Britain and pave the way for Communism. Others say it will provide the best bulwark against Communism, by preventing the want and insecurity on which Communism thrives. That is the way Nye Bevan sees it. Sevan's colleagues say he is one of the party's most active antiCommunists. As a member of the Labor Party's international affairs subcommittee, Bevan engineered the party's appeal to the Italian Socialists against fusion with the Communists before the 1948 Italian elections...
...about. Finally Balfour said: "Are there many Jews who think like you?" The young man, whose name was Chaim Weizmann, replied: "I believe I speak the mind of millions of Jews whom you will never see and who cannot speak for themselves, but with whom I could pave the streets of the country I come from." Balfour looked thoughtful. "If that is so," he replied, "you will one day be a force...
Last week in Warsaw the Socialists, under Communist orders, purged their party officials to pave the way for the merger which was now a certainty, thanks to manipulators more skillful than Osubka-Morawski had been. First to be bounced off the Socialists' Central Committee was Osubka-Morawski. His ministerial job and his housing situation also looked uncertain...
When they bought the old farm, their friend Carl Van Doren gave them curt advice: "Pave it." Instead they let their next-door neighbor work it; now the place pays. Around home Gould is a relaxed, ruminative, cigarette-puffing host, lets his handsome, smartly dressed wife do much of the talking. The Goulds entertain simply, serve "a" cocktail, and, like a good Journal family, live well within their combined salaries of around $75,000 a year...
...still searching last week for some way to end the conflict. Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte was named as a mediator between Jews and Arabs. The U.S. pressed for a Security Council resolution that would recognize a "threat to the peace and breach of the peace" in Palestine, and pave the way for sanctions to enforce a truce. Britain balked. Unless King Abdullah's Arab Legion spilled over into territory marked for Jewish control by the U.N. partition plan, Britain apparently was not going to try to check him. On British insistence, the Security Council voted for another sanctionless truce...