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...Economist laid its finger on the nub when it pointed out that the long-term prospect for British exports depends on comparative industrial efficiency: "It involves asking such questions as whether the universal prevalence of price rings and restrictive cartels [in Britain] is comparable with competitive prices in export markets; whether competition can be suppressed at home without making British industrialists incapable of competing abroad. It involves looking closely into the comparative productive efficiency of every British industry...
...said last week: "It would be a completely hopeless business to demand that democracy in all European countries should be built exactly on the lines of the British or American example." Hopeless or not, Clark Kerr and Harriman insisted on democracy without Communist quotation marks. And that was the nub...
...Wheel. Why had it taken so long, been so difficult to agree on Germany's postwar fate? The easy alternatives-a "hard" or "soft" peace-missed the nub of the problem. In principle, everyone wanted the peace to be hard. The real nub was that Germany-even that smoking ruin-was still Europe's hub. Bombs had not budged it from the Continent's rich center. More than half its industries were workable; of those not working more were damaged than actually demolished...
...these forthright words N.P.A. trampled on the cherished fetish of many a U.S. businessman and farmer. In place of rigid protectionism, the Association blue-printed its own plan for a booming postwar trade. Nub of the plan: Expansion of foreign trade by a scaling-down in U.S. tariffs. Said the Association: "The fear that competition with 'cheap foreign labor' would destroy American labor standards and the American standard of living is without real substance...
...Virginians hotly argued over the State Supreme Court's invalidation of their soldier ballot act, cool Virginius Dabney celebrated the conclusion of his tenth year in command of the Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial page by harping gently on a familiar string. Since the poll tax is the nub of the soldier-vote question, why not-he suggested-use the projected constitutional convention to repeal the poll tax? Virginia's Bourbons, who pride themselves on the fact that the purpose of the poll tax is and always has been to limit the vote, shook their heads sadly and muttered...