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What the Wise Men Said. Last month, EGA Administrator Paul G. Hoffman declared that OEEC must take on the job of whacking up U.S. aid among the various Marshall Plan countries. So a four-man committee (Britain, France, The Netherlands, Italy) locked itself in a solitary villa near Paris, to make suggestions about how the $4,875,000,000 for ECA's first year should be divided...
This fall Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. joins the animal fanciers with an owl whose, chest lights up with a big "6" (6% saving for cash). To dramatize various features of their service, New York's Chevrolet dealers plan to hire six dwarfs. Fitted with plastic masks and dressed as garage repairmen, the dwarfs will be addressed as Howdy, Quickie, Tidy, Thrifty, Brainy and Brawny...
There are, for instance, 3,150 books on various aspects of European, Asiatic and African history, 900 volumes on labor, 2,900 on economics, 450 on medicine, some children's books (Mother Goose, Alice In Wonderland, etc.), and 14 cook books of English, French, German, Chinese and Armenian recipes. They are useful, among other things, for satisfying our editors' curiosity about such matters as these (taken from a recent week's morgue queries...
...true the [Yugoslav] government decided that [lesser officials] did not have the right to give important information to anyone . . . All our clerks . . . gave various people state economic secrets which could and sometimes did fall into the hands of our common enemies . . . To obtain such information, Soviet people should go higher, that is to the Yugoslav Communist Party and the Yugoslav government . . . From all this it can be seen that the above reasons are not the real cause for the measure now taken by the Soviet government and it is our desire that the U.S.S.R. openly inform us what the matter...
...military advisers were sent to Yugoslavia upon your request . . . Later, however, Yugoslav officials . . . announced it would be possible to reduce the number [of advisers] by 60%. Various reasons were given: some said the Soviet advisers were too expensive; others said it was not necessary for the Yugoslav army to benefit from the experience of the Soviet army . . . Yugoslav military leaders started to insult Soviet military advisers . . . [Furthermore] Yugoslav security forces were controlling and supervising Soviet representatives . . , We have come upon similar practices in bourgeois states...