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...GATT) denounced as "inconsistent" the 15% surtax Britain had placed on imports in an effort to right the out-of-joint balance of trade, and demanded that it be removed. Says Sir Leon Bagrit, the chairman of Elliott-Automation Ltd.: "The British economy is a little like Gulliver in Lilliput, when he could not move because of hundreds of cords holding him back...
...their works, survives as a charmingly fantastic just-out-of-the-nursery tale that has delighted generations of the little Yahoos he detested. Satirist Swift would, however, hardly be amused by this film, which with commerce aforethought, scissors his plot and ruthlessly modernizes his ironic allegory of Lilliput and Brobdingnag into a monster movie freckled with psychiatric footnotes. But the dean is dead, and the little Yahoos will love...
...nations to discover the mixed blessings of the age of the Common Motorist. Even yet. there is only one six-lane British superhighway-the London-to-Birmingham M1. And in traffic-congested London, a race between a sports car and a sedan chair staged last week by the magazine Lilliput ended in a win for the sedan chair...
...Senate, in advance, to reject any negotiated settlement relinquishing any territory to Communists anywhere. Cried Jenner: "The air is full of foreboding that a carefully laid plan is under way for the United States to give up, bit by bit, its commitments in the Formosa Strait . . . Like Gulliver in Lilliput, the great strength of the United States has been pinned down by men too small for it to notice . . . We must have a formula to prevent surrender or appeasement, and that formula must be so clear . . . that no hidden appeasers can pervert...
...Life-modeled magazine went on the stands, the press run of 750,000 copies was sold out before noon. Within six months its circulation soared to more than 1,600,000. Under Editor Tom Hopkinson, Picture Post became a valuable property in Publisher Edward Hulton's* chain (Lilliput, Farmers Weekly, Housewife). Hopkinson skillfully blended sex, crime and sports features with campaigns against appeasement of Hitler and British unemployment. During World War II, Picture Post's picture coverage was Britain's best, and after the war it was responsible for such exposes as the government's blundering...