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...Whitehall in 1915. First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill and War Secretary Lord Kitchener concluded it would be a good idea to send the tleet to force the Dardanelles. It would cheer the Russians ; it would get Russian grain ships through to Britain; and it would break the bloody stalemate of trench warfare on the Western front. Only Admiral Sir John Fisher had forebodings. ''Damn the Dardanelles," he said. "They will be our grave...
...unruffled totalitarianism, Premier Chou Enlai, the No. 3 Red, calmly forecast that in six years Red China would rank fifth or sixth among industrial powers. Chou based his prediction on the first five-year plan (1953-57) targets, which, he said, had already been exceeded. Despite flood and droughts, grain production for the current period would total about 1.1 billion tons. As a consequence, said Chou, a 35% increase in agricultural production will be the goal of the second five-year plan, beginning next year. This, said he, should make possible a 100% increase in industrial production...
Typical of such frontier news sources, he discovered, is Churchill (pop. about 1,100), a fast-growing grain port and supply point for the strategically important eastern Arctic. Nearby Fort Churchill is a cold-weather proving ground for Canadian and U.S. military weapons, gear and clothing, and has been designated for next year as an observation station for the International Geophysical Year...
...helping a perfume manufacturer get around wartime travel restrictions to Europe and receiving, for his trouble, a deep freezer. Also on the deep-freezer list was White House Appointments Secretary Matthew Connelly-convicted only this year of tax fraud conspiracy during his White House days. In 1947 Truman denounced grain speculators for driving prices higher, soon discovered that his personal physician, Brigadier General Wallace Graham, was one of those speculators, to the tune...
Russian Gain. ECE also reported sizable increases in production in the Iron Curtain countries-based on their own somewhat questionable statistics. Soviet Russia's three big agricultural areas this year expect to produce 60 million tons of grain v. 36 million tons before Nikita Khrushchev plowed into the virgin lands of Kazakhstan and Siberia...