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...months ago, the South African judges' bold rebuff to Malan's Jim Crow laws might have stopped him cold; now, with most of South Africa's 2,500,000 whites demanding more, not less apartheid, Malan is in position to go to the country for a new election and win the necessary two-thirds constitutional majority to do what he likes with anyone whose skin is not white...
West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had gone along with the West's rebuff to Russia's offer of a united "neutral" Germany (TIME, March 31). Now he had to convince a skeptical Bundestag...
Calm Rebuttal. The State Department countered this rebuff with a calm but uncompromising rebuttal. It regretted that "India is not disposed to join this united effort for peace," quoted Japanese Premier Yoshida to the effect that the treaty "reflects abundantly American fairness, magnanimity and idealism," and argued that no peace treaty is possible "unless the nations are willing to accept what, to each, may seem, imperfections...
Britain's effort to do business with Mao Tse-tung & Co. suffered a rebuff. British authorities in Hong Kong had seized an oil tanker whose ownership was in dispute between Red China and the Nationalists. In retaliation, Peking confiscated the property of the British Shell Company of China (which has installations in Shanghai, Canton, Tientsin, Amoy & Hankow). In London, a Tory bigwig huffed: "Palmerston would have sent a gunboat at once." But a Labor policymaker tut-tutted: "We must not be the ones to set the east aflame-or to turn that heat against the west. Patience, unending patience...
...Labor pacifist felt his conscience troubled in voting against the Conservative motion of censure. In his fourth attempt this year to bring down the government, Churchill suffered his sharpest rebuff. The Laborites won the vote...