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...yesterday's letter to the editor column I was presented with the rather unpleasant alternative of either "eating crow," as our verbose Law School intellectual, Mr. Bracken, puts it, or else answering some of his emotional "reasoning." I choose the latter alternative...
First, Mr. Bracken spoke of the gratitude we owe to our "fearless, clear-headed leaders who call a spade a spade and recognize Communism for the hideous conspiracy it is." I was not quite sure who he was referring to, but I assume he means the Republican majority in the Congress. It is interesting to note that the Senate Republicans split 24-23 on the most important tool of aid to Europe, ERP, and it was the Democratic minority that brought about passage of the legislation. Or, perhaps Mr. Bracken is referring to the magnificent stand the Southern Democrats...
...Brendan Bracken's Financial News Ltd. owns half the Economist's shares. But Crowther, editor since 1938, answers only to a four-man board of trustees that has met only once in 20 years. In four and a half years, he has increased his small but potent readership from 10,000 to 38,000 (45% of the circulation is outside the United Kingdom). A thousand Americans (out of 4,500 U.S. subscribers) pay $24 a year to get the Economist...
Farmers were furious. Cried John Walters of the Western Stock Growers' Association: "The government should put a ceiling on what we have to buy as well as on what we have to sell." The political opposition was scornful. The government's move, scoffed Tory Leader John Bracken, is "an empty gesture in an almost pathetic attempt to satisfy public opinion. . . . Neither fish nor fowl...
...Eyebrows. Once aired in Britain, these black realities stirred up more criticism of Rank. The sober Manchester Guardian was shocked that Rank's privately owned G.C.F. "could make a heavy loss without any general shareholder of the public companies . . . knowing anything about it." Repeating the charge of Brendan Bracken's Financial Times that in taking over G.C.F., Odeon was getting a pig in a poke, the News Chronicle tartly observed that the pig was "a lanky beast of decidedly questionable value...