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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What did the doings at the Palais de Chaillot add up to? The easy and cynical answer was: $39 million for more talk. Yet the framework, the organizational experience and the high goals of the U.N. had survived for another strife-torn year. The struggle for the world was being conducted mostly in arenas outside the U.N., but the U.N. remained the one place where the world's opinion of that struggle could be focused. And no one had yet advanced a resolution to the effect that world opinion was negligible...
...free country are the absence of criticism in the press, and the ubiquity of the army, which is the main prop of the regime. Spain has 350,000 to 400,000 well-fed, well-treated soldiers under arms, and if the need arose she could send a million trained men to battle, though with poor and insufficient weapons...
...short-cut courses in psychiatry, the moviegoer has been shown very little of what can happen to him when he.ceases to be just interestingly neurotic and actually gets locked up. Few Americans are aware that more than half a million men, women & children in the U.S. are in mental hospitals, mostly state institutions; another estimated 7,000,000, although at large, suffer from some kind of mental illness. The state institutions are desperately overcrowded and understaffed...
Even Deutsch's statistics are horrifying: 125,000 persons enter mental hospitals in the U.S. every year; 1,000,000 children now in grade schools will spend some time in state mental hospitals before they die; the 190 state hospitals cost $200 million a year; total cost of mental illness in the U.S. (including loss of pay, services, etc.) is about $1 billion a year...
...buyers' market in oil, textiles, washing machines, etc. was not a blessing to all. It had brought surpluses and layoffs in many an industry. U.S. employment in November had dropped below 60 million (to 59.8 million) for the first time in five months. Part of the drop was due to greater industrial efficiency. Since the first of the year, Western Electric Co. alone had cut back its work force by 25,000. In Connecticut, layoffs were so widespread that the Stamford-Greenwich Manufacturers' Council called a conference to discuss means of reducing them...