After more than two weeks of paralyzing idleness, Britain's trains were running again. But settlement of the railway strike gave the Eden government little more relief than that of a householder who puts out a fire in the living room only to find his front yard engulfed by a flood. Allowed to move freely through the countryside once more, huge piles of export freight and armies of overseas-bound passengers found themselves stopped short at Britain's shores by a 25-day-old dockers' strike and a wildcat walkout of seamen manning the Commonwealth's huge passenger vessels....
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