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Most Europeans seem strangely unaware that U.S. courts have postponed Chessman's execution not to torment him but to safeguard his legal rights, to listen, at his own resourceful and persistent urging, to his own appeals on his own behalf...
...Cabinet in which Africans are promised several ministries. ¶ A bill of rights, still to be drafted, guaranteeing equality and protection of property rights by judicial safeguard. But the old system of reserved lands for separate races (including the white highlands) would be swept away...
...Symington all have unspotted voting records on civil rights. All three Senators (and Johnson too) back the Democratic plan for federal registrars to protect Negro voting rights in federal elections. But the Administration has seized the initiative with Attorney General William Rogers' plan for court-appointed referees to safeguard Negro voting rights in all elections, state and local as well as federal (TIME, Feb. 8). Whether the Democratic majorities in Congress accept the Rogers plan or reject it, it may win some Negro votes for the G.O.P. Dwight Eisenhower got an estimated 21% of the Negro vote...
Finance Minister Morarji Desai angrily set out to get the facts about the Red road. Cross-questioning India's Army Chief of Staff. Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya, he asked when he first knew about the road. In 1957, said the general, and he had offered proposals to safeguard the security of India, but they were turned down by the Defense Minister, lean, rancorous V. K. Krishna Menon. "Why?" asked Desai. "Because," replied Thimayya, "he said that the enemy was on the other side [i.e., Pakistan], not on this side...
Draper sees no landing problems except at the high (6,000 ft.) field at Kabul, Afghanistan (which is being constructed for the Afghans by the Russians). Hemmed in by high mountain ranges, Kabul has no instrument-landing facilities, is often socked in suddenly by bad weather. As an extra safeguard, an Air Force C-47 at Kabul will make constant, firsthand weather reports to Draper while he is en route from Karachi. If bad weather does hit, Draper will know about it in plenty of time to skip Kabul and head for New Delhi. Hopefully the party will try Kabul...