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...other Japanese speaker, a rightwing socialist, urged with equal vehemence a fight against the "evils of capitalist exploitation of the workers" and against "the imperialism and violent dictatorships of the Communists." As a voice of the splinter Democratic Social Party, Koji Kemeda said that if European colonialists would get out of Asia, these nations would join the West in fighting a common enemy. Communism...
...March, the hack politicians of Banda's Sri Lanka Freedom Party paraded his widow about the country not as a candidate but as a figurehead, and backed her up with the dead man's recorded speeches. Sri Lanka nonetheless managed to get only enough seats to splinter the House of Representatives so that no party could rule effectively...
...Tufts Arena Theater traditionally scrapes the bottom of the barrel to find its plays. The splinter it removed from under its fingernail this week is "Mostellaria" (or "The Haunted House") by Plautus. This farce dates from around 200 B.C. and, except for the fact that it predates almost all of them, is totally indistinguishable from the five thousand other farces based on the carousings of a wayward son during his father's absence. It has in it the familiar wily servant and the hordes of cooperative women and it ends in the inevitable crisis precipitated by the father's unexpected...
...many of his old opponents united for the first time. Formed by members of the old elected Parliament that Sukarno dismissed last March and replaced with a hand-picked legislature of his own choosing, the new anti-Communist opposition calls itself the Democratic League, unites Moslems, Catholics, Protestants and splinter parties behind one idea: the necessity for radical changes in Sukarno's one-man rule. In three months the league has mushroomed into 60 chapters throughout the archipelago, plans to present Sukarno with a petition of several hundred thousand signatures demanding reinstatement of the elected Parliament...
...Kikuyu and Embu Christians who deserted the churches during the Mau-Mau uprising in 1952. Identification of mission Christianity with "imperialism" is the church's biggest problem; two years ago, nine parishes of the Anglican diocese seceded and have appointed their own bishop. Twelve splinter churches have been formed, including the African Israel Church (whose members wear turbans), the African Interior Church, the Church of Christ in East Africa, and the African Brotherhood Church...