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5. Far from steering a middle course, or a modern course, or making changes, or bringing Socialist aims up to date, as in turn he claimed, he is operating a Tory-Right Wing Labor mixture of policies as old-fashioned as top hats on Palace coachmen, but not nearly as harmless or funny. The Prime Minister said that the July measures, "so far from threatening the nation with continuing unemployment, by creating the opportunity for a new break-through in exports and production, hold out the surest guarantee we have of full employment for a generation." 6. Far from being a vote-winner, the Budget seems to have driven a bigger proportion of voters than ever to turn away from the Tories at the Derby North by-election. 7. A struggle for conscience began in America in the days of Tom Paine and the American Revolution. It started in England with the Puritans and other protestant sects fighting the persecution of the State and its State religion. 8. Even with the pendulum of power swinging back to the Security Council, as it is doing at present, the Assembly will retain considerable political influence, provided its Afro-Asian majority continues to show a sense of responsibility. 9. Having refused to recognize this in time, Washington was forced to retreat, under the pressure of rather embarrassing circumstances, from the juridical sound but politically unrealistic position it had enjoined on the United States delegation to the U.N. 10. "Our Government is taking a huge gamble in going into the Common Market in the belief that a single integrated large industrial area represents the best outlet for our products. This strategy is obviously very risky. Instead of going after the maximum amount of international trade, we are tying ourselves to a tight restrictive group fiercely competing among each other for vital markets in North America." 11. With no party having an over-all majority, and the political stalemate renewed, the three possible coalitions are: Christian Democrats with Free Democrats; Social Democrats with Free Democrats; and last, but by no means least likely, a continuation of the 'Grand Coalition' between the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats. 178
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