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Only in the matter of handkerchiefs were London's arbiters of gentlemanly elegance inclined to be lenient. Of course two handkerchiefs a day ("one to show, one to blow") was still the ironclad rule, but in a pinch, Savile Row's spokesmen agreed, a hard-pressed gentleman might be forgiven for using yesterday's shower for today's blower...
...Spokesmen for the companies, hastening to put in a commercial plug, were cheery and unchastened. As the Inhiston people saw it, the agreement meant that the FTC "now permits antihistamines to be advertised as a safe and effective treatment for symptoms of the common cold." Said Kenneth C. Royall, attorney for Ana-hist: "The stipulation permits the company to represent the efficacy of Anahist substantially as it has ... in the past. This includes the representation that when taken as directed Anahist is safe-as previously found by the Food & Drug Administration...
...afraid that the Schuman Plan would interfere with its planned economy. In the past, British leaders have tended to deny or at least to evade the charge that the Labor Party's national socialism stood in the way of British cooperation with Europe. Last week some Labor spokesmen were more frank. Wrote Wilfred Fienburgh, the Labor Party's newly appointed research secretary: "A nation which has undertaken full employment planning cannot be expected to relinquish any of its autonomy to an international authority ... If the balance of power on any international body were to tend toward restriction...
...pointed out that the Communist announcement was made a day after Adam Cardinal Sapieha, chief prelate in Poland, had left the country to visit Rome. Cardinal Sapieha, 82, and other Polish churchmen have been pursuing a more cautious policy in Poland than Cardinal Mindszenty adopted in Hungary. Nevertheless, Vatican spokesmen did not believe that the Polish bishops had signed the agreement. Said a Vatican aide: "It is incredible that an agreement of this scope could have been negotiated without Cardinal Sapieha's knowledge. It could be only a dictate." Said another official: "The Communists describe the pact...
...Spokesmen from the Liberal Union and the World Federalists, who also testified at yesterday's hearing, joined with the JRC and HYP in objecting to the "bureaucratic" demands of the rules regarding the various forms and reports required of organizations...