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...Workingmen's clothes will have fewer frills, pockets, buttons and buckles under a new WPB order. Estimated annual saving: 21 million yards of cloth, 125 million yards of thread, 150 million buttons, 12 million buckles...
Gandhi knows India and Britain as intimately as his own loin cloth. He distrusts the U.S., even though Indian newspapers are continually printing such appeals as that of the pro-Congress Delhi Evening National Call: "We appeal to President Roosevelt, and through him to the freedom-loving people of America, in the name of democracy to intercede and effect a settlement before it is too late...
...order to use their ration cards. Bulgars, to whom Adolf Hitler threw Macedonia and Thrace, immediately slaughtered 10,000 Greeks, drove 70,000 more from their homes. Money cannot help; dead men have been picked up clutching large sums in their fists. The Italians cover the dead with cloth and carry them away; the Germans kick the dead in the gutter. Greece has many Lidices, towns razed and marked only by a sign printed on a swastika flag...
...Weave cloth (an art unknown among Siberian primitives) on a loom much like that of the Polynesians...
Today on the streets of Chungking can be seen people lined up to buy this cloth. Officials claim there will be enough cloth for the army and the general population. Even Government offices are furnishing uniforms to their employes...