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...There must be an "Atlantic Chartering" of world oil markets. This State Department phrase means that such market restrictions as may be necessary to avoid wasteful international competition must be arrived at by Government-sponsored trade agreements, and not by private intercompany collusion...
Britain's adherence to unconditional surrender is based on: 1) the determination to reform and re-educate Germany; 2) the equal determination to avoid any truck whatever with Hitler and his gang; 3) the acceptance of the argument that a war between ideas means a European civil war rather than one between nations. In the Observer's opinion, the first aim is somewhat impractical, the second is necessary but "unconditional surrender" is no way to go about it. And the third is fallacious because Europe's war is not a civil war-the Germans rebelled not against...
What Says the King? When Marshal Pietro Badoglio heard of Umberto's interview he denied that it had occurred: Umberto's move threatened to precipitate a shakeup which the old Marshal has tried to avoid. Anti-Fascists, including outspoken Democrat Count Carlo Sforza and compromising Communist Palmiro Togliatti soon justified Badoglio's concern. They and other members of a six-party executive junta met at the Sorrento villa of Philosopher Benedetto Croce. They had been more inclined toward a regency around Umberto's six-year-old son, the Prince of Naples. Now they embraced Umberto...
...Raissa Berkman Browder, Russian-born wife of U.S. Communist Leader Earl Browder (see cut), was able to "dissipate the doubts" of the Board of Immigration Appeals as to her testimony that she was not a Communist. This dissipation is at best a six-month reprieve. To avoid deportation as an undesirable alien, she must now go to Canada or Mexico, wangle an immigration visa from a U.S. consul. If the consul says Yes, she is a suitable prospective citizen with no further doubts to dissipate...
...complicated I.Q. tests based on the Master's "Sacred Writings," filled the air with erudite Sherlockeries. From a dais, the Rev. Leslie Marshall of Paterson, NJ. intoned a "prayer," especially composed for the occasion: "Grant me, O spirit of Reason . . . plenty of three-pipe problems, that I may avoid the cowardice of 7% cocaine*. . . . Grant me ... the meditative breakfast at morning; the unexpected client in the nighttime. . . . Strengthen me not to astonish the good Watson merely for theatrical pleasure...