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Whether their revolt succeeds or fails, New York's Jake Javits is already issuing the call for a party meeting on domestic issues similar to the 1943 Mackinac Island Conference, at which Republicans set foreign-policy aims. The unrest reaches into the Republican National Committee, which as part of its rebuilding is trying to reach labor leaders disgruntled at the Democrats, has been hampered by recent antilabor broadsides of Postmaster General Summerfield and Commerce Secretary Strauss...
Such setbacks came at an inopportune time. Unrest and conspicuous uprisings in communes like that of Lappa Island opposite Macao (TIME, Dec. 22) added to the national loss of face from the failure of Red guns and planes to "liberate" Quemoy and the offshore islands (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The antlike life of the communes had been greeted abroad by coolness in the Soviet Union, by horror in the West, by outspoken distaste in India. Crossing the border to Hong Kong, an Indian population expert last week said that Red China "was like...
...Wuchang meeting, the Central Committee admitted that the communes were in trouble in two areas: 1) the uprooting of families, which caused violent opposition as men, women, children and old people were herded into separate barracks, and 2) great unrest over wages and work, from peasants laboring sometimes from 19 to 20 hours a day. The Central Committee seemed surprised to learn that many local leaders were rude and dictatorial, and that they warned commune members to keep their mouths shut and "do what you are told...
...Economic unrest, an atmosphere of revolution, and a genuine hope for the progress of constitutional democracy are the principal facets of the political scene in Argentina, Cuba, and Venezuela, Bertram E. Johanson said last night...
...that Khrushchev's plan "clearly intends" having West Berlin cleared of Allied troops but left surrounded by Soviet divisions. Added the Berlin newspaper BZ: "We would be at the mercy of Communist intrigue. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin have shown us how it is done. Suddenly there is unrest in the 'free city.' Then there are riots. Then come the 'spontaneous demonstrations'. Red flags appear. There are fights. Someone calls the 'People's Police.' The police come-and they stay...