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Hardtack. But U.S. shipping was far from ready for a graver emergency. The nation's shipyards have not completed a single ocean-going passenger or cargo-passenger vessel in the last 23 months. As a result, the U.S. merchant fleet is slipping into middle age (the average ship is eight years old), and the once-mighty U.S. shipbuilding industry is growing skeleton-thin on hardtack. With just 19 ocean-going ships under construction last week, the U.S. has dropped to ninth place among the nations of the world in tonnage of new ships on order; even conquered Japan...
More battles have been lost through confusion than through treachery. Americans, involved in a clangorous hunt for traitors and spies, seemed increasingly confused about even graver dangers that they faced in their battle with Communism. This situation was illustrated by the story of three men in the news last week. The men were the U.S.'s Professor Owen Lattimore, Britain's Secretary for War John Strachey and France's Atomic Energy Boss Frédéric Joliot-Curie...
Prospect. As to the future, the following points can be made:¶ The Laborite majority is too small for effective government. The danger to the Labor government is not so much from desertion, because party discipline in Britain is much stronger than in the U.S. The graver danger is absenteeism, which is both customary and inevitable in the House of Commons. Some members of Parliament are also ministers. Their administrative duties often take them away from London. Illness can strike one side more than the other at a given time. Many M.P.s have other jobs, requiring their absence from...
Depressing Suspicion. The shock of the Fuchs case was much graver than the Canadian spy case or the trial in. Britain of Dr. Allan Nunn May. The scientists at Harwell were horrified and demoralized. In Washington a young general threw up his hands. "It's depressing," he said. "It makes you so suspicious you don't know whether to trust your own staff members." From Frankfurt came word of Klaus Fuchs's father. The old pacifist, now 75, had left two weeks ago to become professor of theology at the University of Leipzig in the Russian zone...
Before the workers finally withdrew, pending negotiations, a graver incident occurred. Mild, retiring U.S. Vice Consul William M. Olive, who had left the consulate before the siege began, got stuck in his car amid the parading mob; he waited for two hours, then was arrested for traffic violations and obstructing the parade. The Communist cops did not allow U.S. officials to see him in jail. Sixty-six hours later he was released-after, as the Reds put it, "being given sincere and serious education by the police...