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...democratic, capitalistic system, but it must be a capitalism of abundance and full employment. If we return to a capitalism of scarcity . . . the returning soldiers and displaced war workers will speak in no uncertain terms. . . . Too many millions of our people come out of the dark cellars and squalor of unemployment ever to go back...
...Archbishop of York: "The condition of many of the children from the large industrial areas is a disgrace to our civilization* Evacuation has thrown a sudden searchlight on the evils of which the majority of citizens are ignorant. It showed that there still exists a submerged tenth over which squalor, ignorance and vice reign supreme...
...Ethiopia goes its way. Along the new mountain highways, old-fashioned Ethiopian brigands lie in wait for British truck convoys instead of camel caravans, use hand grenades and rifles instead of spears and poisoned arrows. Ethiopians still farm with wooden, wife-drawn plows, still live in filth and squalor...
...part dollar-a-year men and ten parts two-dollars-a-day stenographers. . . . She is the wartime stenographer who breakfasts on 'coke,' skips lunch, and dines on a 10? sandwich. She shares a room with as many as three other girls and they live in such squalor that, if similar conditions existed elsewhere, Ottawa people would be collecting funds to help them. Meet the Government, biggest operator of sweatshop labor in Canada...
...shell-shocked child. His savage pictures, famed in art circles the world over, showed thick-lipped, cigar-chewing bankers leering at mincingly decrepit prostitutes; mad-eyed, marble-jawed soldiers fighting crazily in corpse-strewn ruins; scrofulous, consumptive veterans (see cut, opposite page) coughing out pointless lives amid degeneration and squalor. Of all Germany's "degenerate" artists, Nazis numbered him first. In 1932, despite his "Aryan" birth, Satirist Grosz wisely fled to the U.S. He became a citizen, got a Guggenheim Fellowship and a job teaching at Manhattan's Art Students League. And then vitriolic George Grosz astonished...