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Three months after the Kassim government came to power, the British were selling him arms; their technicians were helping him reorganize his economy; their statesmen and industrialists were offering aid in a variety of areas. And all this, while Iraq was withdrawing from the Baghdad Pact, while the Communists waved Kassim's portrait in the May Day Parade, and while the press in both Iraq and Britain enjoyed and orgy of mutual slander which is only now beginning to abate. The British took these violent insults, even from Kassim himself, diplomatically. They didn't alter their foreign policy...
...twelve leaders of the British Commonwealth gathered last week in London from all parts of the world, only one question obsessed editorialists and statesmen: Would they, or would they not, expel South Africa? Canada's John Diefenbaker asked for a Commonwealth declaration on the rights of man. regardless of race. .Ghana's messianic Kwame Nkrumah wanted the issue of apartheid threshed out, said: "If no one else raises the question. I think I shall have to." Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, the icy-eyed Prime Minister of South Africa, insisted to newsmen that apartheid (literally, apartness) was simply another name...
Flying back into Washington after three weeks in Latin America, Kennedy Brain-truster Arthur Schlesinger Jr. had cheery tidings. During his six-country tour with the President's Food for Peace mission, Schlesinger had found that support for Castro was fading fast among Latin American statesmen, labor leaders and intellectuals, even though he still has student support. "A year ago." said Schlesinger, "Castro struck many Latin Americans as a symbol of social change. Now he seems to them a symbol of a Communist bridgehead in the hemisphere...
...when the U.S. tries to mobilize the hemisphere against Castro, many of Latin America's most influential statesmen refuse to stand up and be counted. Some fear Castro's popular appeal among the hungry peasantry of their own nations; and if Castro has perverted the cause of social reform, they are still on the side of reform. Some doggedly stand by the principle of nonintervention in other states. Nearly all have their own good reasons for not appearing to be the tail on the U.S. kite...
...fused into a game called "African Adventure," in which the soldiers, wrecked on the Guinea coast, fought the natives, established a colony and partitioned it into twelve kingdoms. Little, redheaded, myopic Branwell, aflame with invention, drew maps of the colony, drew up a constitution, manned the kingdoms with leaders, statesmen, newspaper and magazine editors...