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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every week about a thousand of you write us your thoughts on the news we have printed in TIME and on a multitude of subjects suggested by that news. Inevitably, some of these letters, selected by the editors, turn up in the Letters Department. Then, anything may happen...
...officials were already noting, in their minds, what might happen if capitalism, in war's aftermath, did not "catch." Said one: "I am convinced there is a most serious question whether we can maintain our private enterprise economy [in the U.S.] if the rest of the world is socialist. . . . We will almost certainly be driven to state trading, at the very least...
...prince take for personal expenses from his state's treasury? (The Gaekwar of Baroda spent $500,000 last year on English race horses.) How much of the budget should go for education? (The people of big, wealthy Hyderabad are 93.2% illiterate.) The 1947 questions were tougher: What will happen to the princes when their British friends leave India 14 months hence? And (more urgently), how and when should the princely states enter India's Constituent Assembly...
...what was on their minds. About those complaints, now - do Pravda's readers ever criticize the paper for its attacks on the Western powers? Replied Editor Pospelov: "Yes - they say we should make them stronger." Who appoints the paper's editors? "The Communist Central Committee." What happens when the Communist Party disapproves of a Pravda article? Replied ace Commentator Boris Izakov: "Nothing. That does not happen very often...
...goggling egos in It May Never Happen are mostly those of ordinary Britons: clerks, housewives, tradesmen, or casuals who drift around the periphery of fixed society. Pritchett furnishes the wastelands of their minds with the unspoken impulses, the suppressed, half-formed resentments, suspicions and despairs that shape their personalities and behavior. Outwardly nothing much happens to these people. The reader who wants his excitement laid on with a trowel, characters forced toward some unexpected twist-ending by an inventive author, will find them unrewarding. As in the stories of Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen, the excitement in these stories grows...