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...last week some 5,000,000 men were outside the U.S. and rotation was about to be abandoned, or at least sharply curtailed. Reason: by October 1, nearly all the soldiering jobs within the U.S. will be filled by WACs, limited-service men and some combat veterans. Henceforth, 21-day furloughs at home will be the best the Army can offer to men who have been overseas 18 months or longer. Then they will be sent to "redistribution centers" (as the resort hotels are called). From there most will be sent back overseas...
...relaxed shoemaking restrictions on color and styling of many civilian shoes. Henceforth manufacturers...
...Communist governments all over Europe. Stupid! First of all Russia needed peace-to bind up its wounds, to organize its resources into an impregnable, unconquerable socialist state. First of all Russia needed freedom from the fear of invasion, a cordon sanitaire, in reverse, on its western, frontiers. Henceforth, from the Arctic Ocean to the Adriatic Sea, there must be a chain of governments friendly to Russia...
Switzerland, traditional sanctuary for Europe's political refugees, has locked the door. The Federal Council has issued new instructions, announced that henceforth "foreigners unworthy of asylum because of despicable acts or of their activities or attitudes violating Swiss interests are in no case to be admitted...
...passage of Section 722 was political fence-mending of a high and tricky order. In 1940 Congress had plastered U.S. corporations with a 40% to 60% graduated tax on their excess profits. In 1942 the tax took another drastic leap: henceforth a flat 90% of excess profits would have to be paid into the Treasury. Corporations began to scream that they were being milked unfairly; they pleaded that they would have no postwar reserves. At first Congress turned a deaf ear. But between the tax laws and the war there had arisen many inequities; some industries were unfairly scrunched...