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...unpredictability, the day of the Africans at the U.N. represented something new and as yet only half realized, something strong and, at bottom, hopeful. For long years, the cold war reduced the U.N. to stale factions divided by a kind of international discomfort-index into those who were proCommunist, antiCommunist, and those who hovered in between. But last week the mold was broken as the holdouts, with the new nations added to their ranks, suddenly became the U.N.'s biggest "bloc" and the U.N. took a startled new look at itself. What it saw was very nearly a portrait...
Eight months ago, as he whipped up Sicilian voters with the slogan, "Sicily for the Sicilians. Down with the mainland," owl-eyed Silvio Milazzo (TIME, June 22) indignantly denied that he was proCommunist. "I am no Trojan horse," intoned dissident Christian Democrat Milazzo. "I am a pure-blooded Sicilian horse, a noble animal." He became president of Sicily's semi-autonomous regional government, ruling in coalition with the Communists. But last week Maverick Milazzo, no longer regarded as so pure-blooded a Sicilian horse, was put to pasture...
Last week the party came apart. Accusing the left-wingers of being "proCommunist and anti-American while pretending to be neutralist," Right-Wing Leader Sue-hiro Nishio took 30 Socialist Diet members with him and set up a new "Democratic Socialist Party." Nishio is a coldly aloof onetime foundry foreman who organized one of Japan's first labor unions. He made it clear that his new party would have no time for "the proletarian revolution" and class war, would attempt to offer Japan's growing middle class as well as its laborers a non-Marxist alternative...
...assault to theft-is five times as high among this group as among the rest of Japan's population. And owing in part at least to Rhee's insistence that the Koreans in Japan should stay in Japan, an estimated two-thirds of these expatriate Koreans are proCommunist...
Communists, strong in the new labor organization but weak elsewhere, will try to stir anti-U.S. hatreds. Che Guevara, a frank proCommunist, will give Communism all the help he can in the new army. A Communist-lining journalist, Carlos Franqui, is in a powerful spot as editor of the official rebel newspaper, Revolución. But Cubans know the U.S. too well to swallow the usual Communist whoppers. Any party that wins free elections in Cuba will doubtless be in the Western camp...