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Nothing that the war had done to England was so important. Last week, with no more warning than a gliding buzz-bomb, the Conservative Government launched its "prosperity and happiness program," Lord Woolton's plan for cradle-to-grave social security. Famed Sir William Beveridge, stepfather of the plan, gave it his blessing, even thought it an improvement on his own. To most people it looked like "socialism in our time...
...trade continued to buzz; lines were forming for a battle of the Titans. Huge, sales-minded Doubleday, Doran, with its stable of reprint subsidiaries, appeared unruffled by all the excitement; Bennett Cerf's new combine watched Publisher Field narrowly. Mr. Field, admitting that "it will be entirely new to me [but] very interesting," continued to confer determinedly with an attentive Simon & Schuster. By week's end Wall Street money, betting on a first-class postwar fight, was busily calling on all the parties concerned, hoping to invest in a winner...
...Dealers on Capitol Hill were shocked and angry. Had not the President read their memorandum warning him against compromise? The White House switchboard began to buzz with incoming calls. But the President did not answer. Muttered one top New Dealer: "Now we're in one hell of a fix. Roosevelt, by God, has only himself to blame." Finally word went to Texas' New Dealers: Never mind the Stevenson plan; fight for control of the Dallas convention...
...buzz-bombs have stopped coming too. With gigantic strides the war was moving back where it came from-Europe. Britons were stirred, in different ways. An anonymous London Times poet wrote: "We thank thee, London, for thy constancy, There's not a heart today but to thee...
...London. In London's Institut Français, members of the International P.E.N. Club met to celebrate Areopagitica's tercentenary with a conference on: 'The Place of Spiritual and Economic Values in the Future of Mankind." Outside, glass tinkled as cleaners swept up the Institutes buzz-bombed windows. Within the drafty building P.E.N.'s calm General Secretary Hermon Quid remarked: "A klaxon will sound for imminent danger. That will not allow time to leave the hall, so you must just duck. We are all used to behaving oddly, and we might as well...