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Attlee neglected to add just how he would get rid of Chiang's 500,000 troops -unless Red China's armies do the job for him. "He could hardly have said more," wrote the Daily Telegraph, "without actually inviting the Communists to attack [Formosa]." Snapped the London Daily Sketch: "Attlee has dropped a brick that might do as much damage as the hydrogen bomb...
...only one workable solution to the problem has been offered, and it has been slow in winning acceptance. A Briton who took advantage of the system explained it bluntly in a letter to the Daily Telegraph: "There is a little-known way of avoiding the cost and misery of a funeral-a way that enables most of us to be of more use dead than alive. Simply bequeath your body to the nearest medical school...
Wrote the Daily Telegraph's John Ridley, who last visited Shanghai in 1946, three years before the Communists took over: "All gaiety and charm have disappeared . . . There is no laughter in the streets as there used to be, and strangers are not now greeted with smiles and shouts in the villages. Instead, drab, dull apathy has settled over everyone and horrible uniformity is the order...
CABLE TO ALASKA will be laid off the British Columbian coast by American Telephone & Telegraph Co. By 1956 A.T.&T. expects to connect Port Angeles, Wash, and Ketchikan, thus (at a cost of $14 million) add 36 new circuits to its 13 radio and land-line circuits to Alaska...
MOST POPULAR STOCKS of investors under the New York Stock Exchange's Monthly Investment Plan are (in order) Radio Corp. of America, Dow Chemical, General Motors, American Telephone & Telegraph, Standard Oil (NJ.) and General Electric. After nearly six months, M.I.P. has attracted $4,000,000 from 20,000 investors (67% men, 17% women, 16% joint accounts...