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...bold foreign policy, the people would probably back him to the limit. If they did not, George Marshall, facing the greatest responsibilities of any U.S. Secretary of State, would then-and not till then-be entitled to complain of public indifference. Meanwhile, the people would look to Marshall, the statesman, for the vigorous leadership Marshall, the soldier, had given them...
Ramadier's alternative to rising wages is lower prices. His predecessor, Socialist Elder Statesman Leon Blum, checked last December's inflation spurt with a dramatic decree cutting all prices 5%. Ramadier, aware that this turned out to be the most popular move in domestic French politics since liberation, this week decreed another 5% cut. This hold-the-line policy, plus Jean Monnet's plan for reconstruction of French industry and exports, constitutes France's chief and perhaps only hope of stability...
Nobody raised a cry for poor Punch, but the letters column in the London Times was full of protests (from Anthony Eden, among others) at the suspension of the New Statesman, Spectator (missing an issue for the first time in 118 years), Economist, Tribune, Time & Tide. If the Government wanted to save power, asked one critic, why not shut down that high-powered thrillmonger (circ. 7,500,000), the Sunday News of the World? The five weeklies, which do much to mold British intellectual opinion, were forbidden such makeshifts as mimeographed sheets...
...several would still have their say. The big national press, moved by generosity and a chance to grab some good features, promptly offered them space. Editor Kingsley Martin's New Statesman would talk to more people than its usual 75,000 in the News Chronicle, the Evening Standard, the Sunday Pictorial and the Sunday Observer (combined circ.: five million), each of which promised to carry one or another Statesman feature. But the offers were not enough to still...
Complained the London Economist, which hadn't been interrupted before since 1843: "So the Economist, the Spectator and the New Statesman must be treated on a dead level with the astrologists, the pornographers and the trashmongers. The daily organ of the licensed victuallers can continue to appear; we must stop ... if the Government's prohibition is maintained, we shall have no alternative next week but to obey it and to concede to Mr. Shinwell what Goring could not achieve...