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...Could Be Worse." The burdens imposed by England's austerity and bureaucracy haunt many of the paragraphs: ". . . There was a time when rations were things that only soldiers were expected to live on . . ." Sympathizing with civil servants who dwell in "bedsitting rooms,"' the Times asks: "Is it really possible to entertain with any degree of elegance in a room that contains one's pyjamas, and one's butter ration, one's hair oil and one's Empire sherry...
Complaints about the food filter to the masters with about the same regularity as the Student Council gets them at Harvard, and they dwindle into the same obscurity. The Yalies' case for improved fare is even less sound, since they pay only $11 for a 21-meal ration...
...Korea last week, U.S. quartermaster troops faced the problem of pleasing many armies and many stomachs. F-rations, based mainly on rice, were needed in the Kumchon area where the Philippine Republic's 10th Combat Team was carrying out its first combat patrols against bypassed North Koreans. A new M-ration, which, in accordance with Moslem dietary laws, contains no pork, was being distributed to the 5,190-man Turkish brigade soon to join the Filipinos at Kumchon. Regular supplies of tea had to be sent far up Korea's west coast where British and Australian soldiers...
Last week Tito's Yugoslavia went egalitarian. A government decree, effective Nov. 1, closes all special food stores that serve party members and officials. Urban Yugoslav Communists will have to carry ration cards like other city dwellers. Special rest homes and resorts for the elect will be closed. Government agencies are forbidden to buy carpets, curtains, pictures and other items of interior decoration. After Nov. 1, nobody will be able to get free gasoline...
West Berlin's smart antiCommunists, meanwhile, thought up a way to show how little the rigged election represented the real sentiments of East Germans. The West Berliners invited East Berliners to protest against the election by mailing to a West Berlin headquarters the stubs of their September ration cards. At week's end more than 400,000 stubs had poured in, out of a possible 700,000 or so votes in East Berlin...