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...figures in this mural I have known personally. I've shaken hands with most of them, and the others-Cortes, for instance-have peopled my brain for as long as I can remember. That is why it has been so good to do. I felt freer, more certain of myself in painting this than ever before. I put facts on the wall and to me, anyway, they came out poetry...
...displayed signs are needed to remind students which tickets are immediately available as well as to announce the application dates for later contests. Finally, the unutilized outer-office wall might be equipped with a counter, post-office style, to facilitate the filling out of applications, leaving the main counter freer for the actual transaction. True, none of these suggestions means a better seat for anyone, but life inside the H.A.A. could be still pleasanter...
Privately, top-flight officials admitted that restricting imports would be a form of economic nationalism and a bar to the freer, multilateral trade that Canada seeks for the long haul. "It's shocking-horrible," said one, "but we're doing it only as a last resort and we're going to make it as temporary as we can. Meanwhile, we aren't headed for anything like British austerity. We'll cut down, but we'll still get by and have a good time...
...Keynes started with the idea that nothing less than 5 billion dollars would prime the pump; even that would have to be protected by special restrictions against seepage. The American negotiators told him he was wrong; they said 3.75 billion was enough, and that Britain, in .the interests of freer world trade, would have to throw away protective restrictions. The British, having no choice, agreed to the smaller sum, and promised that after July 15, 1947, they would permit those who got British pounds in "current transactions" to exchange them for dollars...
Washington talked comparable drivel. Experts there blamed the British for not foreseeing the "run on the bank." Washington's own overoptimism was dying hard. It still professed hopes of a freer trading world, based on the agreement which 18 nations had reached last week at Geneva. But nobody in Washington had a clear answer to this question: How was the world going to move toward freer trade until a businessman could once again walk into a bank and exchange one currency for another at a rate fixed by the operation of free markets...