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...will be shocked. . . . The Government has not so much credit left in the world that it can afford to squander it in acts of unpremeditated folly." Added the News Chronicle: "British conduct ... is moving rapidly to the ultimate stage of lunacy. . . . No one but a fool would try to compel a Jew to go to Germany of all countries...
...compel employers to hire only union members, but still may enter into agreement providing that all employees join the union under certain conditions...
That was not all. Last week, Quiteños bounced over their cobbled streets in comfortable buses of the newly inaugurated municipal bus system. Gone are the jitneys which bus-line owners rashly garaged last year to compel higher fares...
...high Administration official, who cautiously insisted upon anonymity, thought it was time that the Administration told the nation exactly what it had to do: "The only thing which really fits our needs is the peacetime equivalent of Lend-Lease. Only if we recognize that and compel Congress to recognize it can we operate properly." To win World War II the U.S. had expended in Lend-Lease $50.7 billion. Measured against that and against a national income of $177 billion, a $4 billion investment in peace seemed reasonable...
...Moslem League can have Pakistan if they wish to have it." But he served notice that if India was going to split along communal lines, Congress would not let Jinnah have non-Moslem territories which he claims. "If parts of Punjab and Bengal want to separate no one can compel them the other...