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...Administration has already begun to adopt a tougher posture. Washington has given the twelve-member European Community until Jan. 30, for example, to settle a trade dispute involving the loss of U.S. grain markets in Spain and Portugal. Failure to meet the deadline will mean automatic 200% U.S. tariffs on a number of European products, notably wine, liquor and cheese. The problem is that the Europeans have promised to retaliate in kind, meaning that a major or minor protectionist trade war might already be in the offing...
...made foreign products overly cheap in the U.S. and American- made merchandise expensive overseas. The high-flying dollar created an almost insurmountable handicap for U.S. manufacturers of everything from earthmoving equipment to microchips. Just as painful was the situation down on the farm, where growers were stuck with record grain surpluses partly because they were unable to sell enough of their crops overseas...
...notes, published by Dawson's biographer, Francis Watson, in the journal History Today, indicate that the royal physician gave the King two fatal injections, one consisting of three-quarters of a grain of morphine and the other of one grain of cocaine, at about 11 p.m. on Jan. 20, 1936. King George, who was 70 and had long been in failing health, died 40 minutes later. After the injections Dawson advised the editor of the Times of London to stand by for late news. Next morning a headline in the Times proclaimed, A PEACEFUL ENDING AT MIDNIGHT...
...final blow was the artificially induced famine of 1932-33. It was caused by Moscow's impossibly large requisitions of grain from the depleted farms, and it was maintained by preventing outside help from reaching the starving. No soup kitchens were set up, as they had been during the much less severe famines of the czarist era. Conquest argues that Stalin was aiming at the genocide of the Ukrainians, whose nationalist yearnings he despised and feared. The toll supports his view. Of the 7 million who died of hunger, 6 million were Ukrainians...
...ardent Communist, was traveling through the Ukraine by train. He recalls women outside his compartment window holding up babies who looked like "embryos out of alcohol bottles." For soup, people boiled rats, nettles, tree bark and the skin of old furs. While guarded warehouses nearby were filled with grain, peasants were beaten, arrested and even shot for trying to take the few remaining kernels lying on the fields of collective farms. In one village, families gathered acorns from under the snow and baked them into a sort of bread. A party official complained, "Look at the parasites! They went digging...