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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...North Atlantic pact confirmed on paper what most people knew in their hearts: that the world's nations are divided into two massive blocs. Reluctantly, the free nations had turned back from the high hopes of San Francisco to the bitter lesson learned at Munich in 1938. There were some Americans who feared that the pact might seem provocative. But peaceful men have always found it only common prudence to build stockades in the face of danger...
...history lesson from two world wars in less than half a century. That experience has taught us that the control of Europe by a single aggressive, unfriendly power would constitute an intolerable threat to the national security of the United States . . . We've also learned that if the free nations do not stand together, they will fall one by one . . . We and the free nations of Europe are determined that history shall not repeat itself in that melancholy particular...
...output of British industries was up 12% over 1947, although the number of workers had increased only 2%. This meant that the individual British worker worked harder and more efficiently. The most striking success was achieved by Britain's steel industry, still free-enterprising, which produced nearly 15 million ingot tons, substantially bettering the target set by government planners the year before. This was more steel than Britain had ever produced in any one year...
...clothing ne'er so coupon-free This Spartan isle will shortly be, Methinks, a nudist colony...
Plan S. Last winter, Luigi Gedda called on Catholic Action's comitati civici (citizens' committees) for a major effort. He named it Plan S (for syndicalism). He wanted to build up the Free Federation of Italian Labor, to rival the Red-run Italian Confederation of Labor (C.G.I.L.) through which the Communists have kept an iron grip on four million of Italy's workers. Gedda's goal was to enlist two million members for the Free Federation...