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Last week the Communist-run C.G.T., France's biggest labor union, instructed local officials to threaten factory and mine employers with a strike if any Hungarians were hired. Like any other confidence man, the party wanted no swindled customers mingling with the suckers and queering its pitch. Its alarm was well-founded. Already, C.G.T. membership has fallen off sharply in factories where Hungarians had gotten jobs...
Overshadowed Humans. Neanderthal man was certainly free of one modern worry: his humble weapons and tools did not threaten to dominate his life. Modern man sees the machines that he has created move into higher and higher positions of influence. They already do most of the work of the industrial world, and they are beginning to do a good part of its thinking. Many scientists are alarmed by their rapid march to power...
Passports Revoked. At week's end the State Department revoked the passports of Worthy, Stevens and Harrington; they will be valid only for their return to the U.S. The Treasury Department also threatened to block the correspondents' bank accounts for violating the 1950 law forbidding financial dealings with Communist China. The Government did not, however, say that it would take action against the Afro-American or Look, or permanently cancel the newsmen's passports. Nor did it threaten to impose the maximum penalty for violating passport restrictions: $2,000 fine and five years in prison...
...constitution was the fact that the British proposals made no real concession to the basic Greek Cypriot demand for self-determination, i.e., union with Greece. To have made any such substantial concession at this moment might have so enraged the flag-waving, Suez-group backbenchers as to threaten Sir Anthony Eden's stay in office. But there was more than one lesson to be drawn from Britain's failure in Egypt. Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, veteran African desert fighter of World War II, wrote to London's Sunday Times: "Unless I, as a soldier, am grossly...
...freedom. Said Gomulka bluntly last week: "There will be no freedom for bourgeois [Western-type] political parties in this country." For the anarchy which is the real threat to his power he had a warning: "We shall combat ruthlessly provocateurs, scum, and all those who disturb public order, threaten, or commit lynching...