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...Mukden's cart-jammed main street, still called "Stalin Prospect," a merchant, who claimed his shop had been looted by the Russians, said he would reopen "when the American consulate tells stores to reopen." Told that the American consulate had no such power, he winked knowingly and persisted: "Then when the American consulate tells the Chinese officials to tell us to reopen stores...
Less deft was a British bid for France's favor. Because President Felix Gouin had hinted that the Rhineland need not necessarily be severed from Germany, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin tried to reopen talks on a Franco-British alliance. But Socialist Gouin's Cabinet colleagues strenuously objected. As torchbearers for Charles de Gaulle (who, in retirement at Marly-le-Roi, spoke of the time "quand je reviens-when I return"), the Popular Republicans (M.R.P.) held out stubbornly for the "political internationalization" of Western Germany. The Communists suspected that French, British and German Socialists were plotting another Socialist version...
...smoke-blackened sandstone building on Tithe Barn (pronounced tie-barn) Street in Liverpool, the world's biggest cotton exchange operated, before the war. Last week the British Board of Trade announced that the Liverpool Cotton Exchange, closed since 1939 would not reopen. The Government had decided to stay in business as Britain's only cotton importer. Britain's 400 cotton importing firms will go out of business...
...strike entirely ended. Last week most of the hundreds of fabricators and processors, employing some 350,000 workers, were still shut down. They told Reconversion Director John W. Snyder that they would not reopen until they were sure that they would not be squeezed between the increased cost of their labor and steel they must buy. Some demanded a 10% to 25% increase in price for their finished products...
...steel strike would be ruinous and hence is almost inconceivable in the 1946 U.S. economy, there was a good chance that the fact-finding board could bring about a settlement simply as a catalytic agent. At week's end the board asked the companies and the union to reopen negotiations; it would probably soon look into the matter of steel prices...