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WRITER BY TRADE: A PORTRAIT OF ARNOLD BENNETT by Dudley Barker. 260 pages. Atheneum...
...fair-housing bill and the concern that civil rights legislation may affect the right to sell property to whomever one chooses. Let me put this "right" in focus in the light of my experience, which convinces me that federal laws have become as necessary to protect free trade in property as to protect free suffrage in Mississippi and Alabama...
...cold indictment has been drawn by Britain's creditors in the world. For the dozenth time since World War II, London finds itself caught in a cruel balance-of-payments squeeze that threatens the value of the pound and Britain's prosperity. Britain has always had to trade to live on the scale to which it has long been accustomed as a world power-and it has been notably unsuccessful in the postwar era in selling more than it buys abroad. No sooner does the economy get going than imports rise, the balance of payments goes sour...
...year. This is the price Britain has chosen to pay to remain one of the world's major powers-a role that many critics argue she can no longer afford. Largely for the same status reasons, London upholds sterling as an international reserve currency financing 40% of world trade, second only to the dollar...
...attitudes toward work. "Workingmen," says London School of Economics Professor Richard Titmuss, "carry with them a folk memory." The memory is of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, six Dorsetshire farm laborers who in 1834 were transported to the penal colony at Australia's Botany Bay for attempting to form a trade union. The memory includes the General Strike of 1926, the massive unemployment of the Great Depression, the perennial pain of class distinctions, the furious battles to gain labor's rights. It has left British labor with what Labor Journalist John Cole calls a "Maginot outlook," in which strikes...