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Insecure Guilt. Peace was not and never would be a serene and beautiful woman watching children at play. Peace at best was a squinting sentinel or a farmer building a fence or a man walking the hills with an urgent message which might quell or check or soften hatred. Peace at its worst was the smug illusion of safety-or else it was a panic flight, more terrible than war, away from...
...personal friendliness could not soften the hard reality that Argentina was running out of dollars and smack into a first-rate financial crisis. Moreover, the Peron plan of exacting heavy tribute from hungry Europe for Argentine produce was beginning to backfire...
...idea of class struggle was certainly not original with Marx. What he did was rewrite history with class struggle in the center. Superficially, it might seem that the abundance of goods The Machine could produce would soften the class struggle; Marx said that this very possibility of abundance would sharpen class struggle, that the capitalists would use the state's police power, its war-making power and all other means to prevent glutted markets, i.e., abundance. It followed that the workers had to seize the state by revolution (they would never get it any other...
...Bernard Baruch, who recently recommended far-reaching controls (TIME, Jan. 26), begged off from testifying before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee until he had time for another look around. He wired Committee Chairman Charles Tobey: "There is evidence, superficial perhaps, but existing, that commodities show a tendency to soften. Were that to come about, the need for control would be less pressing...
Spring even appeared to soften the heart of Argentine economic czar Miguel Miranda. Last week Miranda closed a deal with a U.S. Army mission for the sale of 28,110 tons of Argentine corn at the reasonable price of $104 a ton ($2.66 a bushel). He also announced that Argentina, if it could get oil and other transportation necessities, would be happy to sell all grains at the "world price." No one knew exactly what the "world price" was, but the U.S. hoped it would be less than the exorbitant $5.90 a bushel Argentina has been getting from hungry Europe...