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...action today, after the events which we know, seems to me rather misplaced, particularly on the day after the unity of action of the German workers was shattered by the fire of Soviet cannons . . . The working people of France and all the workers of the world will know henceforth the fate they can expect and the liberties which are reserved to them in the regime you praise . . . if, unhappily, they allow themselves to be deceived by your demagogy and your lies . . . When individual gallows are not enough, the tanks are brought...
...school at the University of Minnesota, President Stout does not put too much store by conventional academic standards. He thinks that an emphasis on such "discipline" subjects as mathematics, languages and history is little more than "intellectual snobbery." Last fall, acting under this credo, Stout announced that Nevada would henceforth have no entrance standards at all, would take in any Nevada high-school graduate no matter what his ability or preparation. With that, the Stout v. Richardson battle...
...second stage was to raise prices. This is the way it was done: the money was revalued at the rate of five old crowns for one new; henceforth, a worker who had received 5,000 crowns monthly would get only 1,000, a cut of 80%. Prices were also cut, but only 31%; this meant that real wages dropped almost...
...distaste for what he calls "the sterile games of politics." Although his Rally of the French People polled 4,300,000 votes in the 1951 elections and, next to the Communists and Socialists, is the largest party (85 seats) in the National Assembly, De Gaulle announced that henceforth his party members will act "in their individual capacity ... in the games, the poisons and the delights of the system." Reason: declining public support, culminating in the party's defeat at the municipal elections a fortnight...
...grad, with a German accent. To celebrate the 135th anniversary of Karl Marx's birth, East Germany's Red rulers bestowed a dubious blessing on the smoke-begrimed industrial city of Chemnitz (pop. 550,-ooo), admitting as they did so that there was "great opposition." Henceforth, 800-year-old Chemnitz would be known as Karl-Marx-Stadt...