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Italian strikes —— * 8 . West German news, " 16 Neo-colonialism via the ° ‘IILSON'S WITCH-HUNT The seamen are proving their point, Sir Basil. Smallpiece revealed yesterday that Cunard may have already lost £4 millions in direct and indirect losseSe Cunard, we may assume, are already beginning to feel that Mr. Wilson's incomes policy may be. more expensive to them than the 40-hour week. But it is not only the shipowmers who are incurring losses in the strike, Mr. Wilson, too, is losing heavily, The news that his apparently completely unprincipled aide. in the Ministry of Labour has collapsed under the weight of his own despicable role in this dispute is perhaps a small indication that consciences linger on in the most unlikely places, ‘We wish Mr. Gunter a very long and confortable convalescance, But is not merely his henchmen who are collapsing under the strain of Mr, “Wilson's “ultra-rightist policies, The technocrat himself is clearly under strain, This fact cannot be more clearly shown than by the Premier's utterly visible red scare, Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad, Perhaps Mr. Wilson's undoubted flair for manoeuvre will persuade him’ to reprieve him in the end, but mad he has certainly become. For him to imagine that Bert Ramelson is terrorising the seamen into demanding a 40-hour week is to be so completely egocentric as to vest his om undoubted powers of manipulation and bullying to his opponents, Nobody knows more about intinidating a conference or 2 meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party than Mr, ‘/ilson. He has just very smoothly called up a hundred placemen and several dozen peers to prevent the P.L.P,. from flinging out the infamous East of Suez policy. The left, on the other hand, far from being a tight-knit grouping, has been rallying with great difficulty, to defend the seamen from Mr, Wilson's attacks, by means of solidarity meetings, fund-raising, and other entirely public actions, Mr, Ramelson is one of thousands of people,of many politicial tendencies, who have been trying to help. For the Prime Minister of Britain to speak of a "conspiracy" in a pronounced Wisconsin accent is to mire down to a new low level, Since he was already at rock bottom, Mr, “ilson is performing a spectacular, if dist#teful feat,