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...Dangerous Liability. Indo-China is no longer a golden asset for France. As everywhere in the East, the old colonialism has died beneath the impact of Western nationalist, egalitarian ideas, a process greatly hastened by the Japanese march in World War II under the slogan "Asia for the Asiatics." The French have bowed grudgingly to the times...
...makes an especially heavy impact on the more impressionable youngsters. One young man, formerly a devoted Hitlerite, saw his dreams crash down in 1945. First he contemplated suicide, then he withdrew into complete apathy. By way of a soccer club, he got into the FDJ. Says he now: "Sometimes I'm terribly afraid I might be wrong again. I couldn't stand a second mental bankruptcy. No! The Communists must be right. Look at their successes-look at China...
...evening of March 31, 1943, "Oklahoma!" opened and Broadway was stunned by the impact of the most successful musical show of the American theater. Richard Rodgers had collaborated with Oscar Hammerstein II on the show. Eight months later Larry Hart died, and the old team of Rodgers and Hart was ended...
Other things besides stocks were bouncing up. The impact of increased industrial production and Government stockpiling had begun to tighten the supply of metals, driving up the prices of such raw materials as zinc, lead and copper. Despite the great grain surplus, the prices of corn, wheat and other grains also rose because of exports, Government buying and bad weather. As a result, the Dow-Jones index of commodity futures last week rose to the highest level since December 1948. Traders who thought they saw a general rise in prices ahead once more began to talk about buying stocks...
...Voice has its biggest impact in Iron Curtain countries, where, along with BBC, it is almost the only source of truthful news. Listening to the Voice is not technically illegal, but people caught listening are often fined or jailed under some pretext. In Hungary, where Voice listeners seem most ardent, newspapers constantly report cases of people who have been jailed for spreading Voice reports. Hungarian universities have inaugurated a "political hour" in which the instructor puts his students through a daily catechism on "why the Voice of America lied last night...