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Doing Too Much? To reduce demand ?and hold down prices?Rab Butler has twice tightened up on British credit facilities (TIME, Aug. 29). So far all his maneuverings have met with little success. "We are trying to do too many things at once," said Prime Minister Eden last week. "Better roads, modernized railroads, more houses, new power stations to develop nuclear power . . . maintaining our armed forces for service on many continents . . . equipping them with modern weapons?there is nothing to criticize in any of these aims, but they cannot all be met at once. Some must be restrained...
...Anthony Eden's busiest week since winning the British general election last May. Constantly on the move, from his country estate at Chequers to the English Channel, then north to the Scottish harbors, the Prime Minister talked and listened respectfully to the soldiers, sailors and airmen who man Britain's armed services. Eden's object was to brief himself on the problems-and possibilities-of streamlining British defenses at a saving to the harassed Treasury (see above...
...Mamaroneck. When Noel's play and his affair with Margie both turn out to be flops, he flees to Paris, but Margie follows him, still determined to lasso the cad with a wedding ring. Aboard ship she meets another charmer, Mike Eden, who has a bad case of nerves, but for good cause: he is playing Scarlet Pimpernel in Nazi Germany and smuggling out persecuted Jews. Still, Noel has a fatal hold on her, and she finally catches up with him, only to find him living with and off a lady photographer...
Author Wouk builds up real suspense about the question of whom Marjorie will finally marry-a reformed Noel, a romantic Eden, a successful Wally, or plain Dr. Shapiro. The last chapter finds her a contented matron of Mamaroneck, who in her memory has revamped the past to suit the present. As she gets a little high and waltzes alone to the strains of Falling in Love with Love, she seems for a moment like the dream girl of old. But the moment passes. An old beau who is visiting her decides: "You couldn't write a play about...
While Butler and Eden discussed present and future dangers, millions of their countrymen lay on the beaches in the rare August sunshine, enjoying the highest standard of living in British history...