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General Charles de Gaulle has often wagged his finger at his country's greatest weakness: too many gabby political parties, all too small. Last week De Gaulle's own party, the powerful Rally of the French People (R.P.F.), added one more splinter group to the eleven squabbling parties in the French National Assembly. Thirty Gaullist Deputies and five Senators who bolted R.P.F. in protest against its "negative and sterile attitude" towards Premier Antoine Pinay (TIME, July 14) formed something called the Independent Group for Republican and Social Action. Edmond Barrachin, the fast-talking Parisian columnist...
Grotewohl went over to the Reds, and got his reward: today he is the captive Premier of Communist East Germany. But he took only a tiny splinter of Socialists with him. Schumacher and Ernst Reuter, now the strong-minded Socialist mayor of West Berlin, stood their ground. As much as the allied airlift of 1948-49, that Socialist resistance saved West Berlin for democracy. "No matter what we think of Schumacher now," a U.S. official confessed last week, "we will gladly pay him tribute for having been right about the Russians at a time when we were dead wrong...
...audience of 2,500 applauded, but few came forward to sign up. Boer nationalists like the Reformed Church precisely because it is such a handy political tool. Less politically minded churchgoers, instead of joining Reformed splinter sects like Devos', have switched to other Protestant sects or to Roman Catholicism. "Like vultures battening on a dead body," the church's official newspaper, Kerkbode, commented, "the sects batten on the church." Angrily the political predikants have rebuked Roman Catholic nuns for refusing to discriminate in hospital work between blacks & whites...
...report by the committee on how well the present rules reconcile principle and expediency, but also of a serious investigation into the position which a university should take at a time when the pressures are strongly toward orthodoxy. A question which now seems only to involve "left-wing splinter groups" may next spread to moderate left-wingers, and so on. This is definitely something for the Faculty to think about, seriously and soon...
...advertisers had to budget their funds more tightly, and IBS's power to attract customers went into a sharp decline. In 1947, five member stations from the Ivy League--Dartmouth (WDBS), Harvard (then called WHRV), Pennsylvania (WXPN), Princeton (WPRU) and Yale (WYBC) seceded and formed a splinter group called the Ivy Network. Cornell joined later to bring the Network's roster up to its present number...