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Last week in Communist Yugoslavia, Tito was learning Stalin's old lesson, the hard way. All over Yugoslavia, peasants were on a slowdown strike against Tito's collective farms and Tito's forced deliveries of grains to the state. The peasants had harvested the grain last month on schedule. Yugoslavia's breadbasket was full; for the first time in years, the government prepared to offer wheat for export at the annual Zagreb Fair in September. But farmers were threshing only a fraction of it. On the collective farms (which cultivate 25% of Yugoslavia's farm...
...need to have any significant trade with the Soviet ; it means little or nothing to her to discontinue the imports of furs, caviar and crab. With us, things are quite different. We obtain from the Soviet bloc essential foods and raw materials [timber and grain]-and we believe that in these trade exchanges we get as good as we give, economically and strategically...
...huge drain is due largely to higher prices of timber, tobacco and grain, much of which Britain must buy in the dollar area (the U.S., Canada, etc.). Another worry is the Iranian oil crisis. If Britain loses her oil from Abadan, she will have to spend some $350 million more a year buying oil from the dollar area (the U.S. and Venezuela) to make up the difference...
Author Bromfield was not always so alert at spotting the termites in the American grain. Interviewed at a homecoming in 1933, he cried: "What do I like about America? Everything! ... We have a Pollyanna's Paradise ... I went to a movie, walked through the five-&-ten, ate peanuts and felt at home again...
...against new federal appointments. His complaint: North Dakotans are the finest people in the U.S., yet not since statehood (1889) has any native Dakotan been appointed to an uppercrust federal job. Last week Bill Langer was happy. The President nominated, and the Senate quickly confirmed, a wealthy North Dakota grain buyer and farmer as ambassador to Nicaragua...