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...quantities. Russian farmers are still inclined to retain as much of their foodstuffs as they possibly can, rather than sell them at pre-determined prices. Many essential goods are in very short supply. So long as the basic ingredients of inflation are present they will have a tendency to assert their influence. With the amount of goods available for purchase remaining the same, the prices may be lowered; but then there will also be less rubles to be spent. In that case the mere fact of lower prices would not mean that inflation has been eliminated...
...said, must move and move fast. At the same time, inflation must be stopped in its tracks. Labor must be told that it must not increase inflationary, pressures by further wage boosts. Management must become aware of the importance of reducing prices. Above all, said Ike pointedly, leadership must assert itself...
...compare Perón's Argentina to a European police state. Socialists, even Communists, could stage street-corner meetings and shout bitterly against the Government, if they dared the stones of exuberant Perónistas. But the press throttle was ominous, even though Perónistas, who blandly assert that the press is free, could point to La Prensa's reprinting excerpts from last week's warning by the New York Times: "This is the classic first step by which dictatorship is imposed upon a people. By its very nature, dictatorship moves inexorably to stifle the voice...
...call the borrower's political and economic shots. "Because you don't like Communism (Canadians don't like it either), you came up with the idea of using the dollar to 'contain' Russian expansion. . . . Because you do not like socialism, many of your leaders assert that the price of helping Britain, or giving the French a lift, must be an undertaking not to carry on ideological experiments with the dollars of the American people...
...Bulgaria last week, three visiting U.S. Congressmen, Senator Carl Hatch, Democrat, and Representatives John Davis Lodge and Walter H. Judd, Republicans, decided to perform a simple act of reverence that would dramatically assert the traditions of Western civilization...