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Berliners and West Germans know that only token defenses stand between them and the threat from the East. Under the circumstances, it is not surprising that many Germans (and other Europeans) are profoundly discouraged and defeatist. West German morale soared during the Berlin airlift, plummeted when the West failed to take advantage of its moral victory. Morale flashed up again last June when the U.S. promptly and decisively accepted the Communist challenge in Korea. But it dropped again when U.S. battle defeats, added to appeasing statements from Washington, cast doubt on the U.S. determination to make a firm stand against...
While the government tried to settle the dispute, some magazine publishers (daily newspapers were not affected) managed to get out token issues by makeshift methods. The New Statesman & Nation (TIME, Sept. 4), normally a comfortable 24 pages, squeaked out eight pages by photostated typewriting. The Economist, like many strikebound U.S. papers in the last few years (TIME, Dec. 1, 1947 et seq.), used Vari-Typing to produce a makeshift, 16-page issue for its 107th anniversary. It tartly warned the printers: "Union leaders would do well to observe that it is possible to get along without any compositors...
...fact-finders' offer, they added a 5?-an-hour boost for all hands and an escalator clause guaranteeing a 1? wage boost with every one-point rise in the cost of living. Still Kennedy and Hughes said no. To show they meant business, they ordered a token strike in three terminals and two feeder railroads. Last week, apparently in a more amenable mood, they promised Steelman that they would not extend the token strikes. But 45 minutes later, they gave the signal for a nationwide railroad strike to begin this week...
...labor, chafing under the price rises, had largely confined itself to demanding federal price controls. Last week's strikes (mostly small ones) were largely the result of demands and disputes which predated Korea. Example: the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and Order of Railway Conductors pulled a five-day "token" strike in the big Louisville, Cleveland and Minneapolis-St. Paul railroad terminals to win 17-month-old pay demands. Big mass-production unions, however, were now getting together charts and statistics to support their claims to lusty wage boosts. Phil Murray's 1,000,000 United Steelworkers were ready...
Trygve Lie last week called upon 50 U.N. members to send troops to Korea. Cabled Lie: "The unified command is in urgent need of additional assistance , . . particularly ground forces."* When a reporter asked "whether nations should confine themselves to token forces," Lie answered bluntly: "No, I think they should give effective assistance...