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...March had climbed to ?774 million (a great improvement, but still only about a quarter of what Britain should have as leader and banker of the sterling area). Now came a reward: H.M.'s government was about to add two ounces a week to the Briton's sugar ration, and soon would be able to abandon sugar rationing entirely. Rab Butler accepted the pleased outcries with one of his rare smiles...
...Britons did not fool themselves about their new budget. When it came down to plain shillings and pence, the tax cuts were small; no Briton was going to need larger pockets. But the tax cuts were a well-timed tonic for the British spirit. A London lady read about them, calculated that they would save her ?70 this year, and promptly asked a painter to paint the front of her house...
...More Short Cuts. Boer nationalism was in fact the issue, though most of the noise was about apartheid-the religiously held dogma that 2,600,000 whites (Boer and Briton) should rule four times their number of blacks, half-whites and browns. Malan's racial stand was strident: "This is South Africa's last chance to remain a white man's country. Our aim is to safeguard the purity of the white race." His special strength lay on the veldt, among the Afrikaans-speaking farmers whose fathers had conquered the blacks only to see their early Boer...
...London taxi-durable, unchanging and old-fashioned as a Prince Albert coat -is a rolling exemplar of a British view of life. It is designed to 1) negotiate streets whose narrowness memorializes the Briton's refusal to change anything old, 2) protect a person's sacred right of privacy, 3) commemorate the principle that every man-in this case, the cabbie-must keep his proper place...
...launched a busy peace offensive. They talked of peace in more earnest-sounding tones than they had used since Litvinov's heyday. They made concessions where the conceding did them no hurt: a da instead of a nyet in the U.N. Security Council, a pardon for a drunken Briton held in a Moscow jail, an agreement to talk over the exchange of wounded prisoners in Korea...