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...compromise; it would probably not satisfy anyone outside the Polish Government in Exile, least of all Russia. Since its army in Britain and the Near East is Poland's greatest military and political force until Polish soil is reconquered, Sosnkowski's political influence will probably exceed that of the Premier. The Russians have been frank in their distrust of Sosnkowski...
This American radical, confronting the dangers which will threaten his country after the war, will be "a fanatic believer in equality." Though he will be willing, in times of peace, to let salaries and earnings exceed $25,000 a year (for he believes in equality of opportunity, not of rewards), he will endeavor to prevent the growth of a caste system by demanding really effective inheritance and gift taxes and the breaking up of trust funds and estates. Once every generation, in effect, wealth would thus be redistributed. This, Dr. Conant warned, "cannot be lightly pushed aside...
Only notifications of prisoners' whereabouts are sent by radiogram. Messages between prisoners and families go by ordinary post. A member of the family may reply through the Vatican by using a special form. These messages must contain only family chitchat, cannot exceed 25 words, must not mention military topics, weather, geographical locations. Incoming & outgoing messages clear through local diocesan offices, enter or leave the country by Washington's Apostolic Delegation. There, under the supervision of Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, ten to 24 seminarians are on duty to receive and dispatch the communications. All messages pass through censorship...
...largest military hospital that ever existed in the U.S. was the Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond in the Civil War. It had 9,000 beds in 150 wooden buildings much like modern temporary barracks (the biggest present-day civil hospitals are state institutions for the insane, which rarely exceed 5,000 beds...
...side there will be a great accumulated demand for durable consumer's goods of all kinds. On the other side it will take some considerable time before industry is retooled and equipped to produce a large supply of civilian goods, in this interval, therefore, demand will greatly exceed supply and the wartime peace controls, including rationing, will almost certainly be necessary in order to prevent a chaotic inflationary development...