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...citizens of Hiroshima did not think of their atomic-bombing as an atrocity-until, months after the event, they heard that foreign publications had suggested that it was. Nor are the Japanese the only ones still slowly acquiring fresh concepts of The Bomb. Americans are learning, too. Dr. Stafford L. Warren, who was the chief radiological safety officer at the Bikini bomb tests, has made several informative speeches since his return. Last week, as he took up his duties as dean of the Medical School of the University of California at Los Angeles, he was ready with another...
...gloomy band of British socialists met in Edinburgh. The Ramsay MacDonald government had collapsed. Their movement was wasted by feuds, weighted by inertia; socialism in Britain was moribund. Something had to be done. In desperation they decided to start a tuppenny weekly. To get it going, people like Stafford Cripps, Aneurin Bevan, Ellen Wilkinson, George Russell Strauss and John Strachey chipped in ?10 apiece to buy stock...
...Finns. Early in the Tribune's career, it had narrowly escaped abduction by the Communists, while Cripps and Bevan weren't paying enough attention. Publisher Victor Gollancz, then a fellow traveler (now safely home again), began sharing the deficits with Stafford Cripps in 1938, and Konni Zilliacus, now a pro-Soviet M.P., blossomed as the "Diplomatic Correspondent." In 1940, when the Tribune went so far as to accuse the Finns of aggression against Russia, Nye Bevan woke up and rushed to the rescue...
Down: Dollars & Exports. Last week the results of some "follies" were officially recognized. Austere Sir Stafford Cripps's Board of Trade confirmed that the bulk of Britain's exports have been going to nations inside the sterling bloc. The balance of payments with "hard money" countries (the U.S., Canada, Switzerland) is more unfavorable than was calculated a year ago. The hard fact is that Britain has sold too little in the "hard money" markets (only about 14% of her exports), while buying heavily (about half of her imports) in those markets. A sore point in her U.S. buying...
From its sizable British market, Hollywood got another rebuff last week. Said Sir Stafford Cripps, president of the export-conscious Board of Trade: "I am certain there are millions of [British] filmgoers who are anxious to see the best films from other countries. But there are limits to our appetite, both quantity and quality, and we also feel that exchange implies reciprocity." Unless Hollywood exports improve, he warned, Britain may well restrict them by imposing quotas and tariffs...