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...succeed Razmara as Premier, the Shah appointed Hussein Ala, 68, postwar Iranian Ambassador to the U.S. Hussein Ala is the doughty little statesman who, in 1946, had stood up at Lake Success and successfully demanded that the Russians clear out of the northern Iranian province of Azerbaijan. Until this week, Ala was in charge of a generous and sense-making program of parceling out land, owned by the Shah, to landless peasants. Parliamentary confirmation of Hussein Ala was promptly voted...
When Editor Michael Straight of the New Republic picked up his telephone in Washington one morning last week, London was on the wire. His caller was his old friend Kingsley Martin, editor of the New Statesman and Nation. Editor Martin was in a high huff about a "rather dirty trick," to wit, the liberal New Republic, which had long seen eye to eye with the New Statesman, had turned on Fellow-Liberal Martin in a most unpleasant manner...
...attack on the New Statesman was written by Richard Strout, Washington correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, and briefly U.S. correspondent for the New Statesman during a period when, as he said, he was "unfamiliar with its prejudices." Wrote Strout: "There is something uncanny in the way New Statesman dispatches from all over the world . . . converge ultimately on the faults of the U.S. . . . Doubts arise sometimes as to whether the New Statesman is not merely following the party line. This hardly seems possible, yet the evidence is baffling...
...past two years, the free world's picture of Italian Premier Alcide de Gasperi has changed. The man who seemed at first a diligent but colorless politician has been disclosed as an anti-Communist statesman of impressive stature and strength. But as he succeeded in his fight against the Reds, and the Communist threat in Italy declined, the unity of his followers began to weaken...
...hunting for quail in South Carolina, Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch sprained his left leg when the stirrup broke as he dismounted from his horse. He flew north to see his Manhattan doctor, then snorted at inquiring reporters: "No, 'tain't broken, just swollen...