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...Britain, life is uncomfortable, and a great deal of work has to be done. The sober job of reconstruction, which a wide-eyed traveller from America cannot but admire longingly, causes a basic paradox in feeling among the people: pride in the toughness and hope for the future contradict a superficial annoyance with "queues" and controls and coupons that is becoming almost psychotic. If you're in accord with the aims and methods of the present government, you tend to emphasize the former; the Conservatives feel and talk about the grating annoyances to the exclusion of all else...
...Sussex mines must be brought out of the 19th century. A further British loan, according to Washington pollsters, might be acceptable to Congress if the British matched this helping hand with a little self-help in the form of repatriating some of the 100,000 working men who daily contradict British need by their presence in Palestine. With London finally squaring up to the realities of its 1947 Empire, the U. S. State Department might be willing to share the burden of the Palestine problem and a Congress that is already talking Lend-Lease would be a great deal more...
...better moral position than ever before to insist that its only aim is to encourage a united, democratic China. It would yank the rug from under vociferous U.S. and foreign Communists who had been loudly shouting "U.S. imperialism" (and whose first, triumphant approval last week seemed to contradict their reputation for shrewdness). It would also quash the slightly ridiculous charge that a few thousand marines were intended as a show of force against the massive Russian Far Eastern armies...
...Russians under 50 knew enough about the world outside Russia to see the wild nonsense of Stalin's comparison. Stalin, who is 66 and had a political education before the night closed on Russia 29 years ago, knew that no Soviet citizen would contradict...
...Ernie Bevin's philosophy, liberty and socialism do not contradict each other. His early poverty had led him to prize economic security above economic opportunity. Britain's waning power after two wars persuaded Bevin and his countrymen that sovereignty must be bent to fit a pattern of world order. They knew also that UNO could not be built on a foundation of immoral compromises with expediency. As Britain's ancient strength declined, its ancient principles must take, at least in part, the place of power...