Word: hards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wine v. Potatoes. Behind the British-French argument on a European assembly lies a vast difference between Britain's and France's national way of life. The British are fighting a hard, increasingly successful battle for economic survival through planned austerity. The French have chosen a sometimes crooked middle road between a free economy and socialism, rely almost entirely on U.S. help for survival; as a result France has one of Europe's weakest currencies...
...French are beset by Communist sabotage, and a black market raised to the status of a national institution. How hard it would be to make these economies jibe is shown by France's wine industry, which traditionally depended on exporting its luxury products to Britain. Austeritarian Britain can no longer afford them. Some Britons coldly suggest that the French would do better to pull up some of their vines and plant potatoes instead...
Greece's tall, blond King Paul and Greece's common people were fed up with military defeats, with Communist terror, with the fumbling and venality of Greek politicians. Hard on the heels of the rape of Naousa came news that Karpenesion, a heavily defended provincial capital in central Greece, had fallen to the rebels. The cabinet of doddering old Themistocles Sophoulis resigned. Sophoulis, 88, is lucid for only about an hour...
...time to waste. Today the world is like the Baltic before a frost ... it is still in motion. But if it gets set, you will have to batter your heads against the ice blocks and wait for a second thaw." The warning was almost too late. In 1917 the hard-pressed British had had good reason to win Jewish good will, especially in the U.S. and the Austro-Hungarian empire. After the war they had equally good reasons, they thought, to keep their promises to the newly liberated Arabs. The ice pack was already closing...
...must have been hard liquor," mused Mason. "Yesh, it shurtainly...