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...Kore Da!" Matsui did rebuild, but he was not to remain Hiroshima's leading printer of beer and sake labels, government securities, and Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere bonds. In the time of Hiroshima's agony he had found a new work. One day he noticed five small schoolchildren, dressed in rags and sitting on boxes in the midst of the rubble. In front of them, their teacher was drawing kana characters (syllable symbols) with a charcoal stick on a piece of slate. The sight changed Matsui's plans instantly. "Kore da!" he said to himself...
...what delighted Viennese stomachs most during the holiday season were fat geese and pungent salamis imported from Austria's Eastern European neighbors. The Russians are hoping that, when the U.S. ECAid ends in 1952, need to trade with Communist Eastern Europe will pull Austria inexorably into the Red sphere...
...whole of life; that is why it has, in part, dehumanizing effects ... It is not from science that we have to learn what is the task of man and what is the meaning of his existence. These are questions which lie outside the range of science, in the sphere of faith...
Whether the West was caught unawares by the Russian proposal is still a question. At first the U.S. and British delegations passed the entire thing off as "pure propaganda," pointing to the first Russian proposal. Some groups from small nations, even outside of the Communist sphere, however, thought that such a resolution could do not harm, and might even lessen the international tension. After the Russian recognition of China's Communist government, the U. S. State Department concentrated its attacks on the impossibility of a Big Five pact under the new conditions...
Although the present picture in power is one of a mixed economy, it is hard to tell if it can remain mixed. The rapidly expanding public sphere has at its disposal all the weapons of large monopoly and can drive out private companies whenever they compete. Some say that this is good, for public power is always cheap. Others say that this cheapness is a farce and the people will not notice it until it is too late. The former favor unrestricted increase in public power operations. The latter propose a limitation on federal projects so that the areas...