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...paid that a storm is brewing over native policy. Bantu leaders demand equal rights. The United party seeks to foster friendly relations by giving suffrage to the educated natives. "Malan wants to tighten segregation in the cities now," declared Bok, "and wants later to transplant those Bantus, who currently live in the cities to separate, economically self-sufficient reserves...
Plans are also being made to tighten Air Force discipline and to recruit personable British entertainers to supplement the well-meaning but uninspiring professors who up to now have borne the burden of instructing the Americans in the ways of the British...
...Explained one Canadian economist: "The balance of payment deficit must be stopped, and stopped permanently, and though it may sound hardhearted, that's something those countries have to work out for themselves." Canada, he added, expects countries like India and Pakistan to have deficits ("You can't tighten a belt over a shrunken belly"). But Australia, for example, has made mistakes ("They tried to expand too fast and lived beyond their means"). His advice for Australia, and also for Britain: "They can reduce the demand on their resources or they can increase their output . . . produce more...
...party rules to be submitted to the Congress reveal no major shakeup, but nevertheless contain some interesting changes (see below). They suggest that Stalin is trying to tidy and tighten up the party, possibly to avoid, for a hand-picked successor, the murderous party strife which surrounded his own successsion to Lenin, thus perpetuate his power beyond death...
Party membership has more than doubled (2,500,000 in 1941 to 6,000,000 today), many of the new members being politically "soft" or "unreliable." Many parts of the mechanism have clashed with others or lost their original function. The new party rules seemed designed to 1) tighten party discipline and 2) make the machine run more smoothly by junking some unnecessary parts...