Word: prewar
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...prewar France, it was said that "every French journalist is for sale," and the saying was embarassingly close to the truth. The papers for which they wrote-rowdy, defamatory, opinionated and corrupt-hastened France's collapse. The Minister of Information in Paul Reynaud's 1940 Cabinet, powerful Jean Prouvost, agitated for Hitler's armistice terms, spoke out against Britain. To Parisians, during the occupation, the name of his Paris-Soir (circ. 1,400,000) became as irrevocably linked with German propaganda as those of Le Temps, Le Matin and others which spoke in Nazi accents...
When the French got their country back, any paper which had appeared during the occupation was suppressed. Of the big prewar Parisian papers, only a handful (notably the Communist L'Humanité and the Socialist Le Populaire, which were suppressed, and the conservative Le Figaro, which had scuttled itself rather than publish under Nazi rule) are left...
...will be far more ready to touch off a buyers' strike. And if food prices get out of hand, consumers will be forced to cut down. The U.S., as a whole, can afford to, if it does not like high prices. U.S. food consumption is well above prewar...
...Arakan coast and up the muddy Irrawaddy. Mechanized units rumbled over Burma's uneven dirt roads. At key airdromes R.A.F. transports stood ready to fly crack combat units where they were needed. Burma's garrison of about 50,000 British and Indian troops was three times prewar size and growing...
...manner reminiscent of the ways of the prewar rubber cartel, the U.S., Great Britain, The Netherlands and France sat down last week to talk rubber. When they got through talking, they had fixed a new world price for Far Eastern natural rubber at 23.5? a lb., a boost...