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...this?" His remedy sounded much like those of his Socialist predecessors, Cripps and Gaitskell: more austerity. Imports will be slashed $1 billion, partly by reducing purchases of canned meats, sugar products and fruits in Europe, paring another 2? off the tiny meat ration (total: two small chops weekly), buying less butter, bacon and cheese. The dreary British menu will be thinner and less nourishing than it was after Dunkirk. British tourists will find it more difficult to take steak-hunting vacations on the Continent: their annual foreign travel allowance will be decreased to $140 apiece. There will be fewer housing...
While the Allied High Commissioners and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer dickered, Soviet puppets kept new sideshows going in East Germany. Wilhelm Pieck, East German President, returned from six weeks in Moscow. East Germany took honey, soap and rayon off the ration list, and Propaganda Boss Gerhart Eisler cooed his "deep regrets" that West Germans wouldn't be able to enjoy the same privileges until unification-though the fact is that such rations are no problem in West Germany. East German Premier Otto Grotewohl announced an amnesty for 20,000 prisoners (crimes unspecified, presumably political...
According to the age-old formula, box lunches consist of four sandwiches; usually salami, sliced cheese, soggy tomatoes, bread, all uniformly unappetizing. An apple or orange, warm milk, and crumbled cookies complete the ration. It is no surprise that the wastebaskets begin to look healthier than the students...
...Simone Weil perhaps a saint? She practiced the kind of self-denial that the world has often recognized as saintly. A wartime refugee in Britain, she virtually starved herself to death at 34 because, though exhausted from overwork, she would not eat more than the ration in occupied France. But what are Christians to make of Simone Weil's attitude toward the church? The Dominican priest who was her spiritual adviser is sure that, had she lived, she would have accepted baptism. Simone Weil doubted it. A brilliant intellectual who found God after wading through agnosticism and Marxism...
...equally openhanded with his employees, pays them the highest factory wages in the Far East, knows as many as 2,000 by name. They get a free 100-lb. monthly ration of rice, free medical care, lifelong pensions, and have a commissary with the cheapest prices in Manila. When a toy shortage developed just before Christmas, Soriano dispatched a special P.A.L. plane to Hong Kong to pick up a load of toys for his employees' children...