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...reading and thus demonstrate their good faith to the Allies. After two stormy days, with the speaker's brass handbell jangling almost constantly to bring order, the house obliged. Chubby Erich Ollenhauer, successor to the late Kurt Schumacher as leader of the Socialists, angrily urged the Chancellor to abandon his "teenage enthusiasm for European unity" and start working for the interests of Germany. The Chancellor listened to all of this stonily, and seemed to take as a matter of course the handsome 50-vote majority with which his treaty proposals passed their second reading...
...postwar debates showed that he had lost none of his vitality or oratorical abandon. He made 29 speeches against the Italian peace treaty, warning Premier De Gasperi: "You will be held responsible for those humiliations, this cupidity, this servility." The old Nationalist never got used to the idea that Italy needed or could trust allies. He passionately opposed Italian membership in the Atlantic Pact...
...cowboys of the Commonwealth, who drive autos instead of pintos have aways posed a problem for Massachusetts insurance companies. Sheltered by their compulsory insurance policies, the cowboys keep plowing into other cars with abandon, and leave the companies holding the bill for damages. As a result, company deficits and insurance rates have been pushing each other upwards for three years...
...Labour Party, of which Weinberg was a member until he became president and had to abandon any party affiliation, now is the smallest of the three parties. It includes everything from Fair Deal Democrats to militant Progressives, like Weinberg himself. In pre-war days the party had several Communist members, but today there are none--at least openly. A neo-fascist bloc also is supposed to have flourished within the Conservative party prior to 1941, but all traces of that too have vanished
...Complete revision of U.S. Customs regulations, many of which are unworkable, and so restrictive that they have forced hundreds of legitimate businesses to abandon importing at the very time the U.S. should have been fostering...