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Aubrey Menen is a half-Irish, half-Hindu satirist who likes nothing better than to undo the mental shoelaces of the English. In The Prevalence of Witches, he spoofed the pukka sahib set in India. In The Backward Bride, he showed a good Sicilian lad in the process of being poisoned by the toxic doctrines of an Oxford freethinker. In his latest novel, Author Menen grafts his wit on another culture, lets his English hero bloom like a quirky Renaissance prince...
...sound which jiggled the seismograph most was the voice of Vishinsky. Since a Communist's word can neither be trusted nor disregarded, the West took note of his warnings. Western intelligence recognizes that a full-scale Chinese attack on Indo-China would undo all the success General de Lattre de Tassigny has had there, but it still has no solid evidence that a Chinese invasion is imminent...
...King Coal is the economic tyrant of Europe. On both sides of the Iron Curtain, he chills the poor, rocks governments, distorts economies and hampers rearmament. In the West he threatens to undo much of the good done by the Marshall Plan; in the East he blocks Communist Five-Year plans...
...Iranian crisis, the election campaign got off to a slow start. The Conservatives were first into the paper war with a 2,500-word party manifesto signed by Tory Leader Winston Churchill. "Vague" was the word that turned up in most editorials about it. As expected, Conservatives promised to undo the nationalization of iron and steel-but, significantly, they promised no radical changes in either foreign policy or in the Socialists' popular (and expensive) health program...
Brawl Begins. The Tories will not propose to undo any of Labor's nationalization measures except steel. They will concentrate their fire on rising prices, bureaucracy, the strangling of business initiative, bungling in foreign affairs. The Labor Party will claim that, if elected, the Tories will push Britain back into the worst days of capitalism. Labor will also claim that the Tories stand for a more dangerous foreign policy; Labor may benefit from the fact that a majority of the British people identifies Churchill's name with...