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...approach to the issue, and then only partially. A part of the answer may lie in the left-wing leanings that seem to pervade the thinking of many political economists. The fact remains that there are no thoroughly left-wing socialists on the faculty when an understanding of this viewpoint is essential and when universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, and Williams, in our own country, do not deem the viewpoint dangerous...
...Risks. More reparations in consumer goods to Russia would have several important results, some good, some bad from a U.S. viewpoint. The Russian people, who had fought a heroic war, would get a slight and well-deserved increase in their living standard. Germany's neighbors, who could not return to normal economy until Germany revived considerably, would certainly benefit. On the other hand, more consumer goods to Russians would permit the Kremlin's bosses to allocate a greater part of the Russian industrial effort to increasing the U.S.S.R. war potential. And a large flow of German production...
There are other problems, of course, and one of them is viewpoint. Says Ways: "The two most important stories in the world right now are probably U.S.-Russian relations and the atomic bomb. The first is one of those highly controversial subjects on which everybody has strong opinions. TIME editors are not exceptions. We think that the Russians will go as far as the U.S. will let them. We do not think that war with Russia is inevitable, and we think that the best way to avoid war is by patient and firm resistance to Russian expansion-plus a positive...
Whatever was in Old John's mind, he played his game with his usual matchless skill. From the Government viewpoint, the contract which Interior Secretary "Cap" Krug had signed with Lewis last spring, after a 59-day strike, seemed foolproof. The Stars & Stripes flew over the 3,300 soft coal mines manned by U.M.W. miners. They could not strike against the Government. There was a law against it -the Smith-Connally...
...England Opera Theatre was founded on the announced premise that opera must be seen as well as heard and should therefore be considered just as much from a theatrical as a musical viewpoint. In line with this policy, Goldovsky decided to do his first production, "The Marriage of Figaro," in English, so that not only the audience but the singers themselves would understand the motivation behind the action and music of the opera...