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Since rationing first began, during the war, one item after another has been plucked from the British stewpot until only a mess of boiled potatoes remained. Britons had been eating an average of five to six pounds of potatoes a week, but last week the bottom of the stewpot was beginning to show. Potatoes themselves, the No. 1 staple in the British diet, were rationed-three pounds per week per Briton. "If we'd done nothing," said Food Minister John Strachey, "some time in the spring potatoes would have run out, which would have been a catastrophe." Some British...
...Women look as if they were hung in armor," decided Bright-Young-Briton Cecil Beaton (now a greying 43) after a good look at the New Look. "The owner's personality is lost. They look too soignée and immaculate. There's nothing new about it." Photographer-Costumer-Litterateur-Interior Decorator Beaton, who recently designed a new costume for Vivien Leigh (it took him ten minutes, he said), was in Manhattan to "tank up" against another spell of creation back home. He would, as usual, redecorate a hotel suite so that he could live...
Bleak House. "This" was both too little and too much. It was not enough to give Britons a dramatic sense of back-to-the-wall fighting. Yet the new restrictions, coming on top of all the others, deepened the gloom that hung over the island. John Strachey's Food Ministry slashed several rations. It was worse than the bleak wartime year of 1941. Then a Briton was allowed a shilling and a half's worth of meat a week; now, a shilling's worth. Then he got twelve ounces of sugar; now, eight. Then, eight ounces...
...dawn half a million thronged the green expanse of the Grand Vista and parkways near the Government buildings of New Delhi. Wherever Lord and Lady Mountbatten went that day, their open carriage, drawn by six bay horses, was beset by happy, cheering Indians who swept aside police lines. A Briton received a popular ovation rarely given even to an Indian leader. "Mountbattenji ki jai [Victory to Mountbatten]," they roared, adding the affectionate and respectful suffix "ji" usually reserved for popular Indian leaders...
...Scottish band, in kilts and Glengarry bonnets, piped a greeting. Shortly before their arrival, an Indian band, celebrating the separation of India's wandering child, had tooted somewhat tactlessly, "You'd Be Far Better Off in a Home."* Inside the Assembly Building, the Briton and the Moslem got down to the business of transferring power from the British Crown to the new dominion of Pakistan. It was a formal, cut-&-dried affair. Although Pakistan is frankly a Moslem state (the most populous in the world), and set up to satisfy Moslem demands, there was none of the atmosphere...