Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vacations have begun in the Paris office and before we have assembled again, around the end of October, members of this staff will have been relaxing at points east, west, north and south of the French capital, in half a dozen European countries, and on two continents...
This bit of holiday intelligence from TIME-LIFE International's Paris office, plus the summer skimpiness of our own staff here at home, has led me to inquire where the members of our overseas staff are spending, or planning to spend, their vacations. Here, for the benefit of all of you who might like to go abroad but cannot, for one reason or another, are some of their replies...
...East, vacation-planning was more difficult. The Tokyo staff has to face the fact that resort hotels have been taken over by U.S. occupation forces and Japanese inns are impossibly crowded. "In view of these obstacles," the bureau advised, "I think you will be safe in saying that the Tokyo staff will spend its vacation catching up on sleep...
...help remedy that paralysis, the U.S. last week issued a new directive to Germany's occupation chief, General Lucius D. Clay, superseding Joint Chiefs of Staff Directive 1067 (which had directed the U.S. commander to take "no steps looking toward the economic rehabilitation of Germany . . ."). The new directive said: "An orderly, prosperous Europe requires the economic contributions of a stable and productive Germany." The U.S. suggested that the permissible level of industry in Western Germany be raised by boosting steel production from 5.8 to 12 million tons a year...
...explanation is easy: derring-do, however fabricated the target, titilates the public. To devote President Truman's projected 25 millions, and staff of bright people, to promoting the economic solidity and self-assurance that make Communism look silly to workers, would be a much too unsensational...