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...primary requisite is that money remain relatively stable over long periods of time, periods long enough to work out the international capital investments that world economy needs much more than it needs an international exchange of consumer goods. Given these conditions for investment, every Hottentot can have a skinful of milk a day if he wants it, provided U.S. ingenuity can find something for the Hottentot to produce that others want, and can stake him to the tools the work requires. The U.S., often doubtful in recent years whether it was really a capitalist nation, has arrived at a position...
Ever since Vice President Henry Agard Wallace made his first major speech on post-war problems last May, critics have tried to make him sound like a starry-eyed global godfather whose only interest was a quart of milk for every Hottentot. Last week gentle Henry Wallace, using harsher language than he likes, struck back with some telling blows-and managed to bring out some of the simple elements of national self-interest in his program...
...problem the old guard of the N.A.M. failed even to face. The tone was set when retiring President William P. Witherow delivered a confusing tirade against the already confused ideas of Henry J. Wallace. Cried Mr. Witherow: "I am not righting for a quart of milk for every Hottentot, or for a TVA on the Danube. ... I am not making tanks or guns to help a people's revolution ... I am making armament to help our boys save America...
Born on the Karroo plateau near Cape Town 36 years ago, Josef Marais began as a child to collect the songs he heard the Hottentot farm boys sing. By the time he was 19 and a fiddler with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra he had amassed a great fund of native and Boer folk songs. In 1930, in London, he sang a few for BBC, soon became a BBC standby. When NBC gave him a quarter-hour spot two years ago he got so much fan mail that his time was increased to a half-hour. One homesick South African...
Musicianly Josef Marais controls the timing and tone of his broadcast with the grace of a ballet master. A pleasant script takes him, two boon companions and a Hottentot boy on various African adventures that provide easy openings for such love songs as Here Am I, unique in its treatment of the adamantine mother theme, or such tender Boer campfire songs as Brandy, Leave Me Alone...