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...Eisenhower. Another possibility for Foreign Secretary: Sir Walter Monckton, 62, the sturdy former Solicitor-General who has done an outstanding job as Minister of Labor. The difficulty is that he would be hard to replace, for one of the key requirements for Tory success is that the powerful trade-union movement cooperate loyally with the government, and Sir Walter has seen to that...
...always singled out first for praise. Malenkov assigned a key man as new ambassador to Peking-Vasily Kuznetsov, newly named a deputy foreign minister, and member of last fall's shortlived, 36-man Soviet Presidium. A bright star of Malenkov's generation (52) who headed the Soviet trade-union movement until recently, Kuznetsov once punched a time clock at Ford's River Rouge plant (for a brief period in 1932), got an engineering degree at Carnegie Tech, returned to the U.S. in 1945 at the head of a factory-touring delegation of Russian union bigwigs...
...nonsegregation policy, however, incurred the bitter enmity of Dr. Daniel Malan's race-purity government. Last week the government branded him a Communist and ordered him dismissed from his trade-union job. The year-old Suppression of Communism Act empowers the government to remove from "public office" anyone the Minister of Justice decides is, or ever has been, a Communist...
...Made possible the anti-Communist trade-union federations' Force Ouvrière in France and C.I.S.L. in Italy. Says André Lafond, a key secretary of F.O.:"'In the history of European labor, Brown will be more important than all the diplomats put together...
Bourgeois Weakness. In Budapest, Hungary, after two factory nursery-school directors tried to buy chamber pots at a government store and were told that only unsuitable Japanese flower vases would be available until next year, the trade-union paper Nepszava angrily commented: "The small children of the nursery are in no position at all to wait until January for the pots...