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...Chungking Chinese and foreigners alike felt their deep gloom give way to optimism. Cabled TIME's Theodore H. White: "Criticism by the P.P.C. passes any in intensity and disapproval. There's an increasing desire for unity and an unbudging reluctance to concede an inch on either side. What will come of it no one knows. . . . But the session is regarded as the most encouraging development of a year of unbroken disaster and deterioration...
...learned Britons this week looked with foreboding and gloom at America's prospects for postwar prosperity...
...Gates. Germany's visible reaction to this situation was one of unconcealed gloom and alarm. Lieut. General Kurt Diettmar, ace German military commentator, admitted in a somber radio analysis for his people that the enemy was "at the gates" of the Fatherland, that Germany was facing vast attacks on three fronts by Allied forces superior in men and materials. Other spokesmen seemed almost to vie with each other in gloom...
...Woodbridge. She spoke with Mrs. Juby, the Methodist minister's wife. They decided to organize the Voluntary Vigilantes. Last weekend, just at dark, a dozen earnest matrons equipped with brand-new hats and armbands patrolled in pairs. From time to time their torches (flashlights) stabbed the soft gloom of Suffolk's night. But they found nothing. Undaunted and unconvinced, they decided to make their rounds a little later next time. Explained Mrs. Juby: "Girls everywhere like to go after boys. What we've got to do is be at hand to help them when they find they...
Facing the future, Mises is filled with gloom. He sees no willingness anywhere to return to the free market. To him there is little difference between British Liberals, British Tories and British Laborites; they all believe in the gospel of government interventionism. Hitler, says Mises, must be defeated. But in defeating him, Mises thinks it likely that the whole world will become fascist. Such, to him, is the logical end of "interventionist" economics, whether it bears the label of "liberalism," "progressivism," "New Dealism," or what...