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Your "Curtain of Ignorance" article about Attlee et al is an unblushing twisting and slanting of the news. Surely you underestimate the intelligence of the American reader. Up here we believe there is a great deal of truth in what Attlee says...
Other British papers chimed in with criticism of Clem Attlee's comments on China (TIME, Aug. 23 et seq.). But the criticism, said Attlee, "does not surprise or bother...
With mixed parts, mock science-fiction, spoof world government and vibrant nationalism, the film blends its "Yank (et al) Go Home" theme with broad comic touches. Most of the laughs are elementary, not far removed from slapstick. But they are so well timed and startling, often coming in the middle of a propaganda speech, that they are quite good...
...Fiat cars. When he ran into import and tariff troubles, he took over a small assembly plant in France. In 1934, after assembling 32,000 Fiats, he bought out a bankrupt auto factory near Paris for $300,000 and organized Simca (Sociéte Industrielle de Mécanique et Carrosserie Automobile). Gradually he loosened his ties with Fiat, and today Simca, while it still uses Fiat designs on a royalty basis, is Pigozzi...
...priced surplus ships to foreign investors. But despite all precautions, United Tanker Corp., a Chinese firm with a phony U.S. front, worked out a deal to buy six surplus tankers from a group of promoters headed by Joseph E. Casey,*onetime Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts (TIME, March 3, 1952 et seq.). As a test case the U.S. Justice Department went to court over the sale of one tanker (the Meacham), won the case, seized five ships and sold the Meacham with the proceeds held by the court...