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Topic A. The real concern at Sydney was not convertibility. It was worry over a possible U.S. recession-an exaggerated fear, in the eyes of U.S. officialdom. The British Treasury estimates that a drop of only 5% in U.S. national income would mean a 25% drop in sterling sales to the dollar market. This would put the whole Commonwealth in the red. Convinced that he is faced with that threat, Rab Butler made it his immediate concern to brace the Commonwealth for trouble. Explained a British Treasury man: "The dollar market is the father, and when father turns, we turn...
Some British teaplanters found the Dafias' monkeyshines vastly amusing and rewarded them liberally with gifts of precious salt, clothes and trinkets. But British officialdom took a much dimmer view of the tribesmen whose moral code held that every young man should cut off at least one human head before he was fit to claim a bride. When, as they often did, the Dafias went on the rampage, looting, burning, raping and slicing off neighboring villagers' heads with one stroke of their razor-sharp daos (short swords), the British did not hesitate to discourage them with the full force...
With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle...
...been variously reported as shot by British counter-espionage agents, in a Communist prison, or living in luxury behind the Iron Curtain. Had Mrs. MacLean been kidnaped by the Russians in order to pry secrets out of her husband?* Had her way to his side been smoothed by Russian officialdom in return for services rendered? All Britain and much of the Western world wondered about the answers. Two leading London newspapers, the Daily Express and the Daily Mail, posted rewards for information. But there were no takers, only theories...
Though a far cry from Ninotchka, the 1939 anti-Communist comedy starring Garbo, Mr. Potts does have some fun with the stuffy officialdom of both East and West...