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...Russians had not sought to increase the meager Communist representation (one) in Chancellor Figl's 15-man Cabinet. But they insisted on using their veto power on the Control Council in a way that indicated Russia's long-range intention of watching closely Austria's internal politics. Austria would not be added to the list of Russian-dominated countries; neither would it be fully independent...
...protesting U.S. and British envoys Franco pointed out his internal troubles, insisted that Spain was becoming more liberal. An instance of this meager liberalization is the election to be held in some 9,000 Spanish municipalities next March. The law provides that only "heads of families" will find their names on the voting lists. A third of the councilors are to be chosen by this restricted electorate. Another third will be "selected" (a process equivalent to appointment by the Government) by members of state-organized professional and industrial syndicates. The remaining third are to be chosen by the first...
...there a great new source of profits for airlines and farms in air shipments? No, said Cocky Myers, not at present air rates. At the lowest air freight rate to date for scheduled air routes, 26? per ton mile, Myers found only a "meager volume" of perishables could be shipped. But, he added hopefully, rates could be reduced sufficiently by specially designed freight planes, including insulation, to boost volume. Would this be done? Cocky Myers bluntly warned West Coasters that they had better see that it is done. Said he: "We must revolutionize our methods [or] it will...
Afraid to lose the meager economic defense afforded by preference, Britons, as unschooled as the U.S. public in the loan's real meaning, were an easy mark for imperial isolationists. Chubby Tory M.P. Robert John Graham Boothby, who all along had been against the loan, against unblocking sterling, against Bretton Woods, took one look at the U.S. offer, said it would mean "dismemberment of the British Empire." He asked Britons, whose belts have been tight for six years, to tighten them further, and predicted, "We can get through in any circumstances...
Still unsolved was the Government's problem of strengthening Labor's meager representation (25 peers) in the overwhelmingly Tory (519 out of 803) House of Lords. In theory the Tory peers can hold up all Labor's nonfinancial legislation for two years; in practice, however, they are unlikely to buck Labor's powerful public mandate...