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...pound has faced crisis after crisis?have forced the country into a recession. Charles de Gaulle has hit at the U.S. by exchanging for gold the dollars that France has acquired, thus helping to force the world's richest nation to cut back its spending abroad to stem the outflow of dollars. Such terms as gold outflow and balance of payments have become a part of daily language, a subject for the editorialists and cartoonists; Al Capp's current Li'I Abner strip is based on a scheme to solve the U.S. balance-of-payments problem...
...fields. The old dodge of opening up land in Siberia is out, because Russians are no longer willing to toil where schools and housing are poor, wages are low and prices twice what they are elsewhere. The result is not only a dwindling influx of pioneers, but a soaring outflow of migrants: close to 1,000,000 in the past seven years. Most of them go to the Caucasus, where they settle down as "kitchen gardeners"-people who farm their own backyards. More Daring. If they have their way, the followers of Economist Evsei Liberman (TIME cover...
...Defense Department, in an effort to stem the outflow of gold from this country, has cancelled all cruises to foreign ports by members of the Naval ROTC. About 20 Harvard undergraduates - and scores of other students at the Naval Academy and in 51 other college NROTC programs - will be affected by the directive...
...Just as clearly, it needs to get rid of Charles de Gaulle. Fortunately, to pose that two-fold problem is to solve it. I propose that the world abandon gold, establish a new monetary unit, and use Charles de Gaulle himself as the reserve asset. Instead of the gold outflow, we would have the De Gaulle outflow. And, since De Gaulle would be allowed to say whatever he pleased, wherever he were stationed, it is doubtful that many countries would cash in their extra currency...
...Gaulle drew cheers by denouncing the Yalta agreements of 1945, which, as he put it, had created "the two hegemonies [Russia and the U.S.] which menace international peace." Again and again, he promised local mayors aid from Paris, usually in the form of light industries that would stanch the outflow of young people to the cities. In some villages, De Gaulle's rewards came in more substantial form than mere cheering: countrymen presented him with everything from a case of oysters to a brace of ducks...