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Last week, as the Labor Government rocked in the wake of the municipal elections (see FOREIGN NEWS), the Mirror editorialized: "Although the country . . . may still be behind Labor, it is not going to be content unless . . . the Cabinet is alive to the necessities of the time and the temper of the people. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED...
...committed itself to export large amounts of wheat at one time, then crowded the market-and thus forced prices up-to meet its commitments. Recently the Department of Agriculture won out on a plan of comparatively small, regular shipments (about 30-35 million bushels a month until next spring). Unless the winter wheat crop, which got off to a poor start, fails badly, the Government should have grain on hand to tide the U.S. over...
...open an entire chain of counter-espionage. In such cases, as Associate Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger declared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine recently, "the FBI must, choose between the chain and the conviction." For it is true, in every case, that the government's loyalty program, unless it provides stringent safeguards for the individual, will pass over the line of necessary security and become just that sort of unnecessary purge that Americans have denounced, from Thomas Jefferson's time to ours...
Lally said that only a small percentage of the polls mailed out last week had been received by his committee and pointed out that unless a large number of men indicate their willingness to use the Soldiers Field parking lot as a refuge from Cambridge police, the University will abandon the plan...
Less precise but more emphatic was Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of President Truman's Economic Advisory Council (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Unless consumer credit expansion was checked, said Economist Nourse, "the hopeful 1950s would revert to the distressing conditions of the 1930s." Nourse had a powerful ally in Senator Robert A. Taft, who said he would support a bill to put Regulation W back on the statute books. If U.S. businessmen took too big a swig from the bottle, they would soon find the cork back...