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...Bhave suffered his first arrest for taking part in Gandhi's civil-disobedience movement. Thereafter he spent several more terms in British jail, serving a total of about two years. After India won her nationhood, through the bloody communal riots between Hindus and Moslems and through Gandhi's death, Bhave remained in obscurity, except for occasional newspaper articles carrying his strictures against money. To Bhave, money "tells lies and is like a loafing tramp." For a medium of exchange he favored scrip, showing the number of hours a person had worked to earn...
...Hand That Feeds. The audacity of the nationalization act, say Bolivia's superheated nationalists, was equaled only by the necessity for it. Determined to assert the fact of their nationhood, they are willing to risk biting off the hand that feeds them. Tin pays for 50% of the food that they must now import from abroad. It is the foundation of their teetering economy, source of 80% of their foreign exchange and almost half of their government revenue. And for years Bolivian tin-and Bolivia itself-has been dominated by the three expropriated companies: Patiәo, Hochschild, Aramayo...
...believe that a larger economic unit is more likely to attract the outside capital so badly needed for further development. But for the region's politically dominant Afro-West Indians, the projected union probably represents less an effort to achieve economic betterment than to affirm a sort of nationhood that will erase the indignity of past slavery...
Fire & Comprehension. Colonial Australia, aspiring to nationhood, was full of political slogans, such as "One man, one vote." Billy improved on this: "One bloody man, one bloody vote," he told his electors. He wrote a pamphlet, The Case for Labor, and rode with the Labor Party into the first Federal Parliament...
Last week, as Israel proudly celebrated the fourth anniversary of its independence, the wish had been fulfilled. The tiny, overcrowded land of 1,500,000 people had all the appurtenances of nationhood. It had as many murders last year as metropolitan London, which has six times the population. It had, reputedly, the toughest army in the Middle East. Smartly outfitted Israeli WACs (Chens) and soldiers paraded past the reviewing stand in Tel Aviv and snapped salutes to Israel's triumvirate: stocky Acting President Joseph Sprinzak, shockheaded Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, and 35-year-old Yigal Yadin, army chief...