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Last January the Negus himself opened negotiations with London. Last week Foreign Minister Anthony Eden announced the outcome in the House of Commons: under a new two-year agreement Britain would voluntarily restrict her rights in Ethiopia. Specifically Britain would: 1) remove her garrisons, except from Ogaden province bordering British Somaliland where the tribesmen were still restless; 2) open Ethiopia's airfields (heretofore restricted to British traffic) to all Allied aircraft; 3) give up operations of the Ethiopian section of the 486-mile Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad, the country's only rail link with the sea. Politically...
...arguments of the opposition (principally the conservative American Medical Association): 1) the bill is a threat to freedom because it might restrict a patient's free choice of physicians; 2) it might cut the doctor's income by putting an end to fee-for-service; 3) it might lower the standards of medical care; 4) it would probably put control of U.S. medicine in the hands of lay bureaucrats; 5) anyone in the U.S. needing medical care can get it right now (free, if necessary), if he will go to the trouble of asking...
...Roosevelt lightly passed over the sore old Democratic subject of poll taxes, with a brief mention that the polls should be open to all citizens-"without tax or artificial restriction." And, for the second time in a fortnight, he accused GOPsters of trying to make it hard for U.S. servicemen to vote: "There are politicians and others who quite openly worked to restrict the use of the ballot in this election, hoping selfishly for a small vote...
Patents for All. Berge's fight against cartels is based on his belief, backed by investigations of such industries as vitamins, optical instruments, matches (TIME, May 8), that cartels "restrict trade, reduce production and employment, bring higher prices and a lower standard of living," that Government-sponsored cartels are as wicked as private ones. He feels that effective Government control would require such a degree of interference and surveillance over private industry as "to place in great jeopardy our own free enterprise-private property system...
...P.A.C. have for many years played and are now playing the same game. Where the P.A.C. puts out pamphlets, their opponents have the great majority of the nation's press at their disposal. Where the P.A.C. seeks to "get out the vote," their opponents seek to restrict the vote by such means as poll taxes, an ineffective soldier-vote law, etc. Now that someone has caught on to their game and seeks to play it on their own terms, they cry "foul!" Thanks again for your fair story. [NAVY LIEUTENANT'S NAME WITHHELD] San Diego...