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...Reprieve for Reds Australia's Parliament last year passed a bill outlawing the country's small (15,000) but troublesome Communist Party. The bill authorized the federal government to designate as a Communist anyone whose acts prejudice public safety, and bar him from Crown employment or key trade-union leadership. In March the High Court declared the law unconstitutional. Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies' Liberal-Country (conservative) coalition countered by proposing a constitutional amendment to sanction...
...cast of characters (e.g., Colonel Blimp, the trade-union workhorse, the escapist ostrich) which have helped make him the world's top political satirist, Low has added a tousle-haired, bewildered character called World Citizen. Said Strip-Father Low: World Citizen is an "ordinary fellow in contact with the difficulties and absurdities of the present day . . . contentious world." World Citizen is a young man who wears only a raincoat ("It would be all the better to draw him naked-life in the raw, you know"), no shoes ("He can't afford them"). He runs up against such absurdities...
Alfred Robens, Minister of Labor, succeeding Aneurin Bevan; 40; friendly, open-faced Lancashire man; born and educated (council school) in Manchester; at 16 became clerk and later worked up to director in a Manchester cooperative; at 24 became trade-union organizer; served on Manchester City Council; elected to Parliament, 1945; appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fuel & Power, 1947; a forceful debater, likes to work his garden to soothe his nerves in times of crisis...
...Madrid a few days before the strike, a newspaper called Voz Social, published by Juan Aparicio López, Falangist editor of the official trade-union organ, Pueblo, made its first (and probably its last) appearance. It violently attacked social and economic conditions under the banner heading: "Clothing, shelter and homes can wait-but food cannot." The Voz Social editorial pointed out that through the offices of ministerial employees, it was a simple matter for black marketeers to obtain import licenses for splendid American convertibles, while farmers were unable to get licenses for tractors; that the building of hospitals...
...Communist and nationalist agitators had clearly touched a sensitive nerve and stirred a deep-seated popular reaction. Juan Peron, who understands his people very well, lost no time in telling them what they wanted to hear. "This afternoon," the President announced to a trade-union meeting, "I was asked in connection with a very important international matter what attitude I would adopt . . . Argentina knows what she has got to do today, and what she will do tomorrow. She will do so in her own good time and for her own benefit-not for anybody else...