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Australia Is Big. Bumptious suspicion of life in the Great World is not merely an aspect of the "immaturity" of a colonial people. There is another side to it: Australians, like Americans before them, have felt no need of any pattern larger than their...
...opinion, the first aim is somewhat impractical, the second is necessary but "unconditional surrender" is no way to go about it. And the third is fallacious because Europe's war is not a civil war-the Germans rebelled not against an established European authority, but against a pattern of European life. Furthermore, the Allies impede rather than forward their aims by creating a feeling of last-ditch desperation among all Germans...
...enough cancellations entailing all the knotty problems of inventories and half-finished products have been handled to set an encouragingly bright pattern...
...chief U.S. delegate, was public-spirited Charles Taussig, a molasses importer and economist who has labored hard & well with the Commission. British and U.S. indifference, local antipathies must be overcome before any plans can be translated into action. But the planners were excited and hopeful. They were sketching a pattern for postwar cooperation among colonial powers...
Many U.S. editors have tried to explain the Bulletin's long, steadily strengthened grip on Philadelphia's readers. Most have given up with a too-easy revision of its slogan to: "Only in Philadelphia Would Nearly Everybody Read the Bulletin." The paper fits no familiar pattern for success. Unlike the crusading St. Louis Post-Dispatch, it almost never upsets an applecart, seldom even nudges one. It does not go in heavily for foreign correspondence. It is never spectacular...