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...Paul Salter...
Economist Sir Arthur Salter and other free-trade advocates pointed out that after Beaverbrook & Co., who shouted loudest for a tight, imperial trade system, were repudiated in the last elections, the new Government might have worked for a free trade world. But when the U.S. insisted on condemning imperial preference in 'the loan agreements, preference suddenly seemed dear to Britons...
...relation of calories to life this way: on 700 calories a man could stay alive if he kept in bed with warm covering; on 1,000 calories he could walk around the room a bit; on 1,300 he could perform light work. The British economist, Sir Arthur Salter, said: "Ten million . . . Germans in the British zone are getting an average of only 1,014 calories daily, which is too much to let you die quickly and too little to let you live long...
Died. Julius Salter Elias, Viscount Southwood, 73, onetime London errand boy who became head of Britain's whop ping Odhams Press (the London Daily Herald, The People, John Butt, News Review*), and a peer; of a heart attack; in London. Stumpy, colorless, hard-work ing (often 16 hours a day), "The Little Man" let his publications maintain conflicting editorial policies, specialized in building them to million-plus circulation...
...Shame! Shame!" There was passionate talk of starving German children, of unnecessarily cruel treatment, of the "greatest catastrophe the human race ever experienced." Cried Labor's Michael Foot: "We are protesting against the wanton and deliberate creation of a new sore [in Europe]." Charged Independent Sir Arthur Salter: "If . . . millions during this winter freeze and starve, this will not have been the inevitable consequences of [war]." The implication was that Russia, Poland and Czechoslovakia were deliberately creating chaos in Germany. One M.P. accused the U.S. of the same "lunatic policy...