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...Britannia's notions of the balance of power kept the world in a rough & ready sort of peace. That order came to an end with the 20th Century's world wars, colonial rebellions, and (above all) the rise of U.S. power. Gone, suddenly, were the balances of yesteryear...
...those wistful classified ads of yesteryear floated out of Phillips Brooks House yesterday on the lips of social Service Committee members. It ran something like this...
Gone like the rains of yesteryear were the comfortable questions which former annual conferences had discussed: How much should a prince take for personal expenses from his state's treasury? (The Gaekwar of Baroda spent $500,000 last year on English race horses.) How much of the budget should go for education? (The people of big, wealthy Hyderabad are 93.2% illiterate.) The 1947 questions were tougher: What will happen to the princes when their British friends leave India 14 months hence? And (more urgently), how and when should the princely states enter India's Constituent Assembly...
...Cinemactor Ronald Reagan gave from the heart in introducing a reel of excerpts from Oscar-winning films of yesteryear: "This film embodies the glories of our past, the memories of our present and the inspiration for our future." When the film came on, it was running backwards...
...they stuck out their neck and asked for suggestions. Out of the developing minds of tomorrow's Mellons and Morgans came a trio of ideas. Hard Times. Silver Dollar, Das Kapital. Where is the bear of Yesteryear...