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...improvement, but still only about a quarter of what Britain should have as leader and banker of the sterling area). Now came a reward: H.M.'s government was about to add two ounces a week to the Briton's sugar ration, and soon would be able to abandon sugar rationing entirely. Rab Butler accepted the pleased outcries with one of his rare smiles...
...followers. Moreover, a number of social reforms--in housing, power, and health--have to stew while a defense establishment is kept up. But dollar for dollar it is worth it. For the temporary relief it would give them from anxicty and taxation, America and the West cannot afford to abandon the carefully planned policy of strength that is still the best hope for real peace...
Just what it would be like to meet the Russians in a dark tunnel became apparent in the next two days. Vishinsky announced that his government would abandon opposition to the latest Western resolution on disarmament-that is, if the West would abandon its insistence on disarmament by stages under rigid inspection. The West held to its protection clause, so again Vishinsky voted nyet. Then Vishinsky addressed himself to a Polish catchall proposal covering Korea, peace, disarmament, etc. The U.S.S.R., said Vishinsky, was "unswerving for peace." But on closer look, it proved only to be unswerving, period. Vishinsky laid down...
...Tokyo and Osaka stock markets, which had been climbing with heady abandon for more than a year, plummeted at news of a possible Korean truce. Speculative issues such as Nippon Heiwa Sangyo (Japan Peace Industry), which had soared to 400 yen in early February, toppled to 82. Even blue chips like Mitsuokoshi department store tumbled from 670 to 495 yen. Last week the market recovered slightly, but was still far down from its peak...
...dance in Copenhagen, an alert photographer got a playtime picture of Princess Margrethe, daughter of King Frederik and Queen Ingrid and heir presumptive to the Danish throne. The princess, who will be 13 this week, claimed the prerogative of teen-age abandon, flew down the stairs two at a time, leaving her bewildered escort far behind...