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4. It would give the General Council the right to sit in judgment on wage claims before they are submitted, and demand that the unions should delay their claims until this has been done. 5. In preparation for their meeting tomorrow it would be a very good idea if Trades Union Congress leaders would make a point of meeting the rank-and-file workers who are lobbying Parliament today. 6. Even if NATO Governments were not yet prepared to abolish both the NATO and Warsaw Pacts it would still be possible to reach an understanding on liquidating the military organizations of these groupings. 7. A visit to the detained African leaders would therefore most likely have resulted in the rejection of the Prime Minister's proposals — which would have been awkward for him on the eve of the Labor Party conference. 8. Even if this proposal were acted upon, and it is now evident that the President has disavowed it, the fundamental guns-instead-of-butter nature of the economy would in no way be altered. 9. This veto provision reflects the conviction of those who drafted the Charter that the United Nations would be unable to take an important initiative for the maintenance of peace and security unless there was unanimity among the big powers and that to attempt so, would be a futile gesture, endangering the organization. 10. If it had been reached on a national scale the whole political scene in India would have been transformed, and the Right Wing gains in other areas would have been impossible. 11. No one is under any illusion that had the men not shown their strike solidarity there would be no extra £ 2 a week in the 64 В.А.С.[12] men's wage packets this week. 88
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