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...evaded: What is to be done about the Bevanites? Fears of a party split that would jeopardize Labor's chances in the next British election hung heavy in the air, but to Clement Attlee, back from a squally powwow with Europe's splintery Socialists, the time seemed ripe for a showdown...
...without going to war-is seized upon avidly by Frenchmen seeking new excuses to obstruct German rearmament, by Britons who fear that rearmament is the road to bankruptcy, by Germans anxious to reopen trade between the Ruhr and Russia. French Elder Statesman Edouard Herriot last week thought the time ripe to try to scuttle the European Army (see below). In Britain, Emanuel Shinwell, former Laborite Minister of Defense, cheerfully proposed that Britain's draft period could be safely relaxed from two years to 18 months...
...Matthews, or else in Weld, I have forgotten which. Both Halls flank Grays. It was in the after-luncheon doldrum time of day, when mankind in its senses should be ossified and not prodded. Walter was tired out: "brain fag", the railroad men would call it. He was ripe to be keynoter at a convention on explosives. And all unconsciously, he was just that, for the convention sat in silence in a score of open windows...
...Ripe Plum. How would the British take a U.S. policy change? The British Foreign Office again warned that it would take "all practical steps" to block Iranian oil sales. But under pressure from the U.S., the British might lift the embargo...
Last July when Egypt's Naguib led a revolt against his government's corruption, Lebanese wondered whether their country was not ripe for similar treatment. Two weeks ago 'Premier Sami el Solh turned on his boss in the most violent speech ever heard in the Chamber, then quit...