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...This move is an inestimable tragedy to those hundreds of thousands of Jews in European DP camps who have been existing on a hope--the hope that they soon will be allowed to go to Palestine, the one place in the world where it is possible for them to reconstruct their lives. It is also a tragedy for those who had hoped that the UN would become an active force for justice and peace. And it is a tragedy for Americans that it should have been the United States that scuttled the UN in its first opportunity to become such...
...incorrect, too, to say that the General Agreement adds up to more barter and bilateralism and, probably, to a reduced flow of goods. It is true that this Agreement, in itself, will not suffice to reconstruct economies disrupted by the war, nor to correct the serious imbalance that now characterizes world trade. For this, other measures are now being considered by the countries of Western Europe and by the Congress of the United States. Until reconstruction is really under way and the present imbalance in trade substantially reduced, a large measure of bilateralism and even of barter will undoubtedly persist...
Costing an average of $600 for each student, the 1948 summer program offers the chance to live in French, German-, Spanish-, or English-speaking countries. Students will work in camps for under-privileged children, help farmers with harvests, reconstruct hospitals, and make bicycle trips...
...picture is mounted with a radiant opulence. Items: $250,000 to recreate and cremate 17th Century London; $100,000 to reconstruct a wing of Whitehall Palace; $90,000 for Amber's wardrobe; $100,000 to film one kiss (which was later...
...simple but uncertain expedient of assuming that U.S. prices would fall. France's delegate, dapper Herve Alphand, emphasized that, in any case, "the figures in our report are by no means a claim or a demand, they are merely an illustration [of what it would cost to reconstruct Western Europe...