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...years 1939-41 many an American had accused the British of trying to drag the U.S. into war. Now, naturally enough, some Britons had the same feeling about the U.S. It was not accurate to call the British reaction "hysterical," although that was a favorite (and inaccurate) British word for Americans. Intelligent Britons feared that the U.S. would get bogged down in a war with Communist China and be unable to defend Europe...
...says Professor Myklebust, some parents become overprotective, allow the child to play tyrant, fail to prepare him for the problems ahead. Other parents take the opposite extreme; they make no allowances for the child, confront his handicap with open hostility. Still other parents weep in front of the child, drag him to specialist after specialist for further treatment...
...group of Labor M.P.s which all along has more or less secretly opposed Bevin's firm anti-Soviet policy. A few of these M.P.s are Communist fellow travelers, more of them are anti-American, or isolationist, or inspired by fear that the U.S. alliance will sooner or later drag Britain into a hot war with China and Russia. Said one Labor rebel last week: "I've been Bevin's admirer for years. But now it's different. A bull was never meant to walk a tightrope...
Steel is the pet industry in the U.S.S.R. as it is in any other major power. Soviet steel labor is elite labor, with an efficiency twice that of other Soviet workers. A severe drag on Russian steel production is the fact that 95% of Russia's working iron deposits lie west of the Ural's industrial complex, and 85% of its coking-coal reserves lie east of it. Bringing coal and iron together to make steel puts a heavy strain on Russia's inadequate transport system and slows down the growth of the steel industry...
This does not mean that the Russians are likely to starve - in peace or war. It does mean that the weak agricultural base will be a drag upon any very rapid expansion of Russian industry...