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Again, the Labor Government, which is powerless against the unions whence spring its votes, failed to implement its pleas for greater production with hard measures to achieve them. The White Paper inveighed against "restrictive practices" by both labor and capital. It urged more output per worker. But the truth was that the British worker was not working very hard, and neither the British capitalist nor the Government was taking measures likely to supply either the incentive or the compulsion for greater effort. Nearly all British industries, for example, still worked only one shift, because workers were reluctant to change their...
...Soul. Those principles add up to no comfortable, carpet-slipper religion. One of Founder MacLeod's favorite quotations is from Dostoevsky: Love in practice is a harsh and terrible thing compared with love in dreams. MacLeod says: "Our present tragedy, with 'one world dying and the other powerless to be born,' is that the church is too ethereal in its instructions, and the world is too material in its constructions. Jesus Christ...
...year ago this speech would have landed Narain himself in jail. Now the British are powerless to stop his rabble-rousing without the consent of the Congress Ministry of the United Provinces. The very fact that Narain remains free to speak as he does underscores the fact that the British are virtually throwing themselves out of India...
Another braintruster is Mosha Pijade, 55, Jewish Vice President of Yugoslavia's powerless Parliament. He is a greying, walrus-mustached, hunchbacked little man (when he sits at his desk, his legs do not reach the floor), who used to be a journalist, modernist painter and a Belgrade drawing-room lion until Communists were taken seriously. Then he was jailed, spent years studying Chinese, lecturing his jailmates, and translating Das Kapital into Serbo-Croatian...
...become the international Thin Man. The cost of living had doubled since 1939. A dozen eggs cost 60?, an ordinary shirt $6 and the average worker earning about $1 a day was out of luck. Even Chile's famed social laws, which insured him against practically everything, were powerless to buy him shirt or eggs. From his predicament spiraled massive social problems: poor public health (devastating tuberculosis and infant mortality rates), declining industrial output, alcoholism...