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Sympathy and reticence were somewhat easier in Britain than in other EGA fields. No one was plugging away at the Marshall Plan goal of independent economy by 1953 with more determined self-help than self-denying Britons. Finletter had no need to pressure or preach. Socialist Britain, in fact, could be quite touchy about capitalist America's help. As Finletter well knew, EGA could come a political cropper if it crudely pressed a capitalist tract into Britain's hand along with the ham sandwich...
Died. Dorothea Thompson Brande, 55, bestselling authoress (her self-help guide, Wake Up and Live, published in 1936, sold more than 400,000 copies); of a heart ailment; in Boston...
...government was ready to talk. Defense Minister Brooke Claxton led off in a coast-to-coast broadcast. Said he: "We are working out with other free nations plans for joint defense based on self-help and mutual aid." Three days later, External Affairs Minister Lester ("Mike") Pearson had his piece ready...
...retirement, lower taxes (in that order); Government stimulation of housing; rent control; prepaid health insurance at the state level; a permanent FEPC; the Taft-Hartley law (except for the anti-Communist and union press provisions); public power development; the U.N.; the Marshall Plan (conditioned on proof of mutual cooperation & self-help); equal attention to the problems of the Orient; Hawaiian statehood; universal military training...
...bill strengthened that hope by making continuing U.S. aid conditional on "continuity of cooperation" abroad. It called for a multi-lateral treaty, with the U.S. binding participants to the pledges of self-help and mutual aid laid down in the Paris report. Bilateral pacts with individual nations would commit each participant to 1) increase production (particularly in steel, coal, transport and food); 2) stabilize its currency; 3) cut tariff walls; 4) dig up hoarded assets; and 5) make strategic raw materials available...