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Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps last week declared flatly that Britain could not integrate her economy with Europe's "in any manner that would prejudice" Britain's responsibilities toward the Commonwealth and the sterling area. In plain English, Cripps was saying "count me out" to any further plans for economic union...
Meanwhile, French Finance Minister Maurice Petsche was sponsoring the idea of "regional integration." So far, after more than two years of fiddling with the project, the Benelux countries still had no coordinated monetary policy, encountered rough going toward economic union, largely because The Netherlands' economy is geared more closely to Britain's than to those of her continental allies. Now Petsche was plugging a new regional grouping, to be known as Fritalux, i.e., France, Italy and Benelux. Object: monetary union...
Last week, as the Red armies of China swept unopposed across the Pearl River Delta, chasing ragged anti-Communist forces toward the Macao line, Oliveira realized he must behave with greater circumspection than any governor before him. The gunfire of China's war was audible in the Portuguese colony. Through Porta do Cêrco, the massive, yellow brick border gate, poured panicky peasants and deserting Nationalist soldiers, clamoring for haven from the advancing Reds. Black sentries from Mozambique allowed them to pass, first stripping the deserters of weapons. By week's end, over Pak-sha-leang...
Thirty white policemen soon arrived to disperse the pickets. The blacks retaliated by stoning white auto drivers on a nearby road. Prancing and chanting old tribal war songs, thousands of black men swept toward the location superintendent's office, set fire to a few buildings. Rioting continued into the night. Police and strikers exchanged gunshots. Three were killed, many others wounded...
Said one worker about his boss: "He knows his job and so do we-that's what matters . . . Sure, I believe the world is moving irresistibly toward socialism." Then he added: "But if all the factories were like this, maybe it wouldn...