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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purely financial point of view--that one department's surplus might well be put to use cancelling out another's deficit. For instance one academic department did exceptionally well last year, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which embraces the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Although this department used some of its excess income in bailing out the library and HAA, it needs most of the remaining surplus to guard against possible ups-and-downs in the near future. Moreover, University policy is that each individual department should stand for itself and not serve as a crutch...
Western Europe's harvest was almost in. In the rolling green hills of northern Bavaria, tanned, pipe-smoking farmers loaded the last of the rutabagas onto their creaking, unpainted wooden carts. Parisian housewives clucked approvingly at stalls piled high with vegetables, meat, butter and cheese (although they gaped in dismay at the high prices). In Rome last week, delegates to a regional conference of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization met to assess the food situation in eleven European nations. After six days, they emerged with cheerful news: Europe's food crisis was over...
When the ballots were counted, the Socialists had 46% of the votes (up 5% from 1945) and 84 seats in the 150-member Parliament. The Communists, although they managed to catch almost 6% of the popular vote, were soundly shellacked, lost ten of their eleven parliamentary seats. The Conservatives, Liberals and Christian People's Party (whose campaign strategy had been badly coordinated...
...Although started long before President Truman's Point Four program, the big-scale plan might well serve as a model for Point Four planners...
...Salzburg publisher Kraus, has been taken over by Nazi elements. This charge was, of course, leveled at the League by the opposition during the election campaign. It attracted a large number of the votes of the so-called "less implicated" Nazis, who were granted the ballot in this election, although they did not vote in 1945. Your statement that "a large group of Austrians decided that they would like to have some Nazis running their country" is ironic when you consider that leading members of the Austrian People's Party conducted negotiations last spring with leading ex-Nazis and offered...