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...Washington and London the delegation made a poignant plea for democratic aid in solving Hungary's economic and political difficulties. Would the U.S. and Britain be willing to support Hungarian requests for a moratorium on the crushing $200 million reparations burden to Russia? Would the Western democracies side with Hungary on such matters as the revision of Transylvania's award to Rumania? Would the West press harder, against Russian reluctance, for the internationalization of the Danube...
...other sentence from that speech: we shall not succeed in our desperately important postwar peace plans by "a snarling process of international recrimination in which every United Nation's capital tries to outdo the other in bitter backtalk about the infirmities of each." I earnestly suggest a moratorium by all concerned until we can sit down together in mutual good faith and try to discover "what's what." A. H. VANDENBERG United States Senate Washington...
...third reason why we must declare a moratorium is that all these orders have swamped our subscription staff. TIME'S Circulation Office in Chicago is right in the heart of the tightest manpower shortage area in the country. And with so many war plants around us we cannot go out and bid for all the workers we would need to handle this winter's subscription volume with anything like the speed and efficiency with which we have always tried to enter TIME'S subscriptions...
...hope this moratorium will enable us to handle renewal orders from TIME'S old friends promptly and without a slip-and that it will make it possible for us to continue entering subscriptions for our overseas forces as fast as we get them...
...Philadelphia meat packer stirred the 600 members of the Independent Meat Packers Association to hot applause in Manhattan last week, when he suggested that OPA place a moratorium on meat rationing for the two holiday weeks. His argument: if the beef and pork products were not moved quickly, they would spoil since there is no storage space. Further, such action might strike "a deathblow at the black market." Other food dealers suggested that WFA release part of its gigantic 433 million Ib. of frozen fruits, 1.7 million cases of eggs, 176 million lb. of butter. This would ease the storage...