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State Agriculture Commissioners piled up the gloom. Samples: > New Hampshire: Production will be off generally 5% to 12% from 1942; the quota for potatoes was set at 40% over 1942, a year whose halcyon weather conditions will probably not be repeated this year...
...prayer for Gandhi in the temple at Delhi was only part of a vast and tragic sense of gloom that engulfed India. In the fields the peasants laid aside their wooden plows. In mud-hut villages and princely palaces the talk was of Gandhi. Only the unbending British Raj would be blamed by millions of Indians if Gandhi died inside the guarded Palace of the Aga Khan at Poona...
...Gloom & Quibbles. This tepid resolve was miles behind the temper of the British people. It came little nearer to satisfying the House, including a sizable number of Churchill Conservatives. Forty Tories, led by handsome Viscount Hinchingbrooke M.P., demanded that a Ministry of Social Security be established at once. Liberal insurgents headed by gaunt, good Wilfrid Roberts similarly wanted a new ministry and "earliest possible legislation." Angry Laborites denounced the Government's policy, urged "reconsideration of that policy with a view to the early implementation of the Plan...
...editorials range swiftly from gloom to sprightliness. In 20 minutes' dictation, he whips off a column croaking fearfully against the New Deal, then charges without hesitation into another column about the peonies in a neighbor's yard. Often, and excusably, he pops with pride, says something about his 42-year-old son, William L. White, whose name is on the Gazette masthead as publisher and who, as a foreign correspondent, has written two recent smash bestsellers: They Were Expendable and Journey for Margaret But most of the time Editorialist White is translating state and national issues into rich...
...teetering on a higher precipice than ever before. No plain citizen could hope now to follow the tortured quarreling inside WPB; even Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch, out of his experience as World War I's one-man production board, could only shake his old grey head and gloom: "Tinkering, tinkering, always tinkering. Patching. They have no overall plan...