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...They were inclined to ask for only a little now in the way of special help from the U.S., in the hope of more later. Specifically, they would probably propose a larger British slice of the ECA pie for Europe, which OEEC is currently fighting over (see below); a freer hand in spending their ECA allotment; a cut in U.S. tariff duties on British goods, an easing of U.S. customs red tape, and permission to save dollars by discriminating more freely against certain imports from the U.S. (i.e., buying goods, instead, from America's competitors if they can furnish...
...their first panicky reaction, Chileans tore into the U.S. tariff talk. Santiago's La Hora protested that it "counters principles [of freer world trade] backed by the U.S. in Bretton Woods, Havana, and Bogotá." Government leaders understood that it was only one part of their problem...
Margaret herself plainly believes none of it. As a younger girl she may often have longed to call less cynical attention to her large, soft blue eyes and to kick up her heels in freer fashion. As a princess, she can only mock, strictly among friends, and make the best of it. "After all," as one flag-waver remarked while welcoming Margaret to Capri last month, "a king's daughter is still a king's daughter...
...Einstein recalls, he might not have suffered so much as others from exams. He had to take only two in his whole time at the Polytechnic, and there were friends who could be counted on to attend all the lectures and keep conscientious record of the lecture points that freer spirits might otherwise have missed. Even so, it was bad enough...
...should be bitter," he went on. "But the bomb brought immediate surrender, which saved many more lives than were lost. While it destroyed materially, it did not destroy spiritually. It has meant that we Japanese who are left can build a better and freer country than the one our militarists took...