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...French people may rest assured that the Government and people of the United States will continue to maintain unimpaired their full respect for the sovereign rights of the people of France. They may continue to be confident that by the victory of the United Nations those rights will be restored intact to them...
...that "they provide very little guidance for the practical problems which will face the United States on the day of the armistice." On that day, he says, "there will be neither world state nor hegemony but many large and small powers." The business of the U.S. will be to maintain a balance of power among them, and "preserving the balance of power is a permanent...
...small, self-perpetuating group or class holds political control, nominating their candidates for public office while the other two-thirds of the voters have no say in the matter. This minority has entrenched itself in power in each of these States and will go to almost any extreme to maintain the status quo--their present jobs and their unchallenged political supremacy. To have the poor farmer and laborer get the vote would be to sign away their power and prestige. New men, in most cases, would most likely be elected--men who would try to help the submarginal farmer...
...Cabinet was with few exceptions a collection of "illustrious nobodies." The policy, combining sympathy toward the U.S. with determination to maintain Chile's remaining neutrality, perfectly exemplified Chile's dilemma. For the dominant groups in Chile are sharply split on foreign policy. Until their conflicting interests are resolved, they agree that what they need is a firm government of "Center concentration" under a strong-man mediator. It is a case where the policy is the man, and Ríos was perfectly cast for the role...
...prices generally lag behind wholesale prices. (Example: a large department store which sold a popular-priced man's shirt at $1.39 a year ago; today it sells at $1.89, but the replacement stock that the store has already bought will have to sell at $2.19 in order to maintain the same markup-and would sell at that price by June, when earlier stocks are exhausted, if there were no intervening price ceiling.) So how will retailers survive if their margin Is drastically cut by having wholesale and retail prices fixed on the same date (which appeared to be what...