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...Time for Miracles. Despite this initial record of accomplishment, De Gaulle has a long way to go. In fact, his very conditions for returning to power???that he be summoned on his own unquestioned terms?made it necessary for circumstances to be almost beyond retrieving before he would take over. The slope that lies before him is steep. Wonders Socialist Guy Mollet: "Frenchmen expect miracles of De Gaulle. But can he work miracles...
George Bernard Shaw's thought for the week: the Nazi war criminals were just "extremely ordinary men" given too much power???and: "Is it fair to give common fellows power that would turn the heads of all but the ablest five percent of the population . . . and hang them because they behaved like Torquemada . . .? Ought we not rather hang ourselves for being such fools...
...Hurley drafted such a plan (TIME, May 25, 1931). It called for freezing prices during war and establishing taxes that would take 95% of any man's or corporation's war profits in excess of his average for the previous three years. It also called for drafting all man power???which meant workers at home as well as fighters at the front. To this last provision Labor bitterly objected. When the plan went to Congress the House struck out the drafting of man power. With the bill thus emasculated it was allowed to die. Franklin Roosevelt was but resurrecting...
Commented The Nation, intellectual weekly: "Riches and power???and orders for shoe polish. There was once a man who talked differently. 'Blessed are the meek,' he said. 'Why take ye thought for raiment?' 'Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.' 'Go and sell all that thou hast, and give to the poor.' 'Verily I say unto you that a rich man shall hardly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.' 'It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God.' And in one terrible passage...
...near to nothing at all as most people can imagine. But last week, Dr. D. D. Knowles, 28-year old research engineer of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., demonstrated before unbelieving eyes in the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan, a device that runs on one-fortieth of one fly-power???in electrical parlance: one-billionth of a watt...