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Since the Civil War, most news from Spain has been written from afar, contributed by correspondents who 1) could not get in, 2) could not find out much if they did, 3) did not like what they found out. Last week Carey Longmire, open-eyed correspondent of the Paris New York Herald, turned in a report of a real trip through Spain. Having no truck with the official and political life, Correspondent Longmire wandered through the towns noting the price of eggs, the looks of posters, the crowds at bullfights, jokes, songs and the length of women's bathing...
...found out that maids in the houses of Madrid noblemen get $4.50 a month, adding-either as a slur on aristocrats or a tribute to maids-that you can tell the maids from the aristocrats on the street because the maids are not allowed to wear hats. Gas is 50? a gallon. Trains are slow and jampacked with soldiers, who ride for nothing. There is plenty of fruit for sale -oranges, plums, cherries-but fish gets mighty tiresome after seven or eight meals in a row, and eggs may be available only two or three days a week. There...
...world prices. Although realizing that New Zealand will not for a long time be able to supply all its wants, Minister Nash's idea is to build factories to enable the country to manufacture "secondary" articles. And he expects Mother England to supply the necessary capital to get his plan started...
Against such a background neither Mr. Nash nor his Labor Government was expected to get much sympathy from London's big financiers, who are far more interested in interest payments than in social experiments. The liberal British weekly New Statesman and Nation likened Mr. Nash in the City (London's Wall Street) to Daniel in the lions' den, recalled how badly both the British Labor Government of 1929-31 and the French Popular Front Government of 1936-38 had fared at the hands of the big bankers. There were predictions that before Mr. Nash could renew...
...days later Clarence Dykstra, who is far too smart to get into a name-calling contest, replied: "A university is timeless, selfless, and committed to the commands of truth. . . . Individual lives are short. . . . No adversity kills a firmly rooted university...