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...pronounced aches) -la-Chapelle and Bad Oeynhausen offer famed rheumatism cures. Some resorts, such as Baden-Baden and nearby Badenweiler, are known as Gesellschaftsbäder, or social spas, because patrons go there more for the crowd than the cure. Nearly all the spas advertise cures for the capitalist ailment known deferentially as Manager-Krankheit, the manager's disease. Says the owner of Baden-Baden's chic Bellevue Hotel, where Greta Garbo stayed through July without stirring a flicker of recognition: "With these rich people, all they really want is to recuperate from their last recuperation...
...they see with their own eyes the richness of the U.S., West Germany, or some other free capitalist country, they will no doubt change their view of free enterprise, capitalism, and the U.S.A...
...Communist parties everywhere to make common cause with the hither to despised Social Democrats, and even with the bourgeois. Maxim Litvinov, voluble ambassador to the U.S. and the League of Nations, spoke as eloquently as Khrushchev does today about "the peaceful coexistence of two systems-the socialist and the capitalist." After the cynical nonaggression treaty with Hitler killed off the Popular Front but could not prevent the German attack on Russia, Moscow once again became democracy's ally against a common enemy-only to revert to the old ruthless anti-Western line as soon as the German danger...
Founded there in 1919, the Narodny Bank was only another agency to finance East-West trade until it began to go capitalist and expanded into a full-fledged merchant bank in the late 1950s under the prodding of a new chairman, personable and professional A. I. Doubonossov, 63, who wears a Homburg. Narodny's prudent bankers handle the extremely sensitive job of selling Soviet gold on the London market, trade actively in foreign currencies, and make short-term loans to British corporations and cities. With a capitalist eye for profit, they even hold $3.9 million in British Treasury certificates...
State ownership of industry-which Winston Churchill called that "burglar's jemmy to crack the capitalist crib" -is the goal most commonly associated with a Socialist administration. Tory scaremongers even claim that Labor already has a "shopping list" of 104 companies it plans to nationalize. However, after bitter argument the Labor Party has abandoned its longtime commitment to public ownership of the economy's "commanding heights." It plans now only to renationalize steel, which was partially restored to private enterprise by the Tories, and Britain's trucking industry...