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What About Russia? Were the Anglo-Americans trying to establish an anti-Russian western economic and political bloc? The answer to that was "No, but-." The "no" lay in Anglo-U.S. policy, which for months has consistently favored joint four-power administration of Germany. The "but" was implicit in what would happen if the Russians (and the French) still refused to come in. The merger puts the U.S. and Britain in effective, working control of two-thirds of Germany's population, three-fourths of her industrial resources. Most top U.S. officials believe that the Soviet Union, left with...
...letter, read in all Catholic pulpits, heavily emphasized the Church's approval of the rural life for the protection of family ties and as a shield against city distractions. The bishops made the point that Quebec still had 10,000,000 acres of tillable, uncultivated soil, enough to establish 500 parishes of 200 families each. Said they: "Many of our young people would find there the living space that would allow them to make a home." Colonization was not a temporary palliative. "This is a permanent task ... to fill the gaps caused by emigration. ... It is also important...
...postponed National Constitutional Assembly last week, China entered a new phase in her long search for democratic unity. By calling the Assembly in the face of a Communist boycott, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek underscored his recent military victories over the Reds. He could proceed -unilaterally, if necessary-to establish the forms if not the substance of democracy, could tell the Communists and other dissenters to like it or lump...
Obviously the H.A.A. cannot be blamed for the two-seats-to-a-customer rule that it found necessary to establish. But the deadline for applications for the Yale game was some time ago. Why could not the H.A.A. have announced the 10,000 seat over-application and the two-seat rule then...
...Malayan Sultanate of Johore. Where Singapore city now stands were "four or five little huts, and six or seven coconut trees . . . and there was one house, a little larger where the [prime minister] lived." It seems to have occurred to no one but the sharp-eyed Raffles that by establishing a "free city" on this spot, Britain might drain the trade of the Malay peninsula and establish her naval power athwart the route to China...