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When an M.R.P. deputy rose to speak, the Communists shouted "A Rome! A Rome! (Back to Rome!)" When a Communist deputy rose to speak, the M.R.P. shouted "A Moscou! A Moscou! (Back to Moscow!)" Thus France's Assembly discussed the new draft constitution for the Fourth Republic...
...control of all territory won by the Government in the past six weeks. They flatly declared that if the fighting were not stopped, and the Government persisted in its "unilateral" plans for a National Assembly in November, they would call a "People's Assembly in Liberated Areas" to draft their own constitution. In effect, this meant that the Communists would set up an independent government...
...outlined the technique of forming a democratic state. First step: a provisional government should draft a federal constitution under the eyes of the Allied Control Council. He promised again: German industry would be restored. (Buried forever was the Morgenthau plan to reduce Germany to pastoral impotency.) War industries would be removed and eliminated, but Germany would be allowed to maintain "average European living standards...
...Syndicat des Pêcheurs de Grande Rivière. They bought their gear wholesale, sold their fish cooperatively, ended the year with $3,276 surplus or $109 apiece. By last year the co-op had 90 members and earned $39,984 surplus, better than $400 a man. A draft, now figured at 224 lbs., fetched $12. Wartime prices for cod had helped, but the big saving had been in fishing costs. In World War I, when prices generally were even higher, a draft fetched only...
Last week, well into the June-October fishing season, Grande Rivière's co-op fishermen were getting a cash advance of $6.72 a draft, with a co-op dividend to be added later. It looked like the best year...