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...head of the pack. If forced to devalue. France threatens a devaluation of such magnitude as to pull down other currencies with the franc. The U.S. dogmatically upholds the value of the dollar. The world has suffered three major monetary crises in the past year; yet nations still attempt patchwork measures that only temporarily ease their ills and then only at the expense of others...
...always. Doubtless the Italians will also escape from the present cliffhanger. They are bound to come up on the other side of disaster with a patchwork government that will last until the next one, pointing again to their great miracolo, the economic miracle that the nation's leaders always cite as proof that there is really no cause for concern. The lira is so strong that some rumors speak of an upward revaluation. Gold reserves increased by $383 million in the twelve months ending Oct. 1, the largest increase of any country in the world for that period...
...Patchwork Life. Willis Mosby shares Braun's detachment, if not his ethnic background. An American Christian gentleman and noted action-intellectual, he has withdrawn to Mexico to write his memoirs "in the vein of Sir Harold Nicolson or Santayana or Bertrand Russell." He deals at length with his patchwork life; his fundamentalist upbringing, his Rhodes scholar days, his unorthodox interpretation of John Locke, a stint for Hearst in Spain, wartime service with the OSS, and his views on F.D.R., Comte, Proudhon, Marx and Tocqueville. But then Mosby decides that his memoir needs a touch of humor...
...consider a random lottery system the best method for selection of military personnel. The greatest liabilities for our current patchwork system are its lengthy uncertanities and its economic and social discrimination. Both would be greatly reduced under my proposal...