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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under Johnson and Bradley, a new team of top defense officials this week went to work. To succeed Bradley as Army Chief of Staff, the President named hardy, crisp-spoken 53-year-old General J. Lawton ("Lightning Joe") Collins, whose string of World War II campaigns stretched from Guadalcanal to the Rhine...
...Twenty years ago, all varieties of Government cost the average family less than $200 annually. Today it costs about $1,300. The U.S. citizen now has to work an average of 61 days a year to pay for his Government...
Demand for Work. India's cities teemed with unemployed, her factories were producing less steel, less cotton cloth and less jute than before independence. Prices were three times as high as in 1939. Last year India imported 2,200,000,000 rupees ($665 million) more than she exported ; she was deep in debt for the balance. Said Nehru in his Independence Day message: "Criticism and self-criticism are always welcome provided they do not take the place of work. Today, India demands work from her children...
India, while probably more democratic than any other country in Asia, still has no effective parliamentary machinery through which a healthy opposition can work. The Congress Party has power without purpose; led by a laborite (Nehru) and a conservative (Patel), it has avoided charting a clear economic course for India toward either socialism or free enterprise. Nehru last week declared that there would be no nationalization of ker industries for at least ten years; businessmen were far from reassured...
London's wise, brilliant Economist has long been one of the Labor government's most relentless gadflies. It has mercilessly told the British people that they must work even harder, and give up some of Labor's expensive social achievements, in order to export and live. But last week, amid thicker & thicker criticism of Britain's Labor regime, the Economist, with wrath flashing and statistics flying, lined up with His Majesty's government...