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Because of Iran's constructive and precious contributions to world civilization, which place the whole Western world under her obligation, because Iran and her problems are crucial for the peace of the rest of the world, because in this war she has rendered services saving us life and treasure at a dreadful expense to herself, because she still has a great future and looks to America to help guide her toward fulfillment, she and her young king are entitled to the respect, sympathy and fair dealing that are essential in the American tradition...
...Most parents regard passing ... as a child's democratic right. . . . Unless a teacher wishes to be picked to pieces . . . she cannot fail a third of her pupils, and so she passes nearly everybody. . . ." Meanwhile, sighs Principal Henry, "precious little education, even for the others, is now going...
...That Britons cling too tightly to the precious pence...
Like Omar Khayyam's vintner, the U.S. is asking itself: what can it buy abroad one half so precious as the stuff it has to sell? The particular stuff the U.S. wants to sell is some $6 billion worth of surplus war goods overseas. The countries that could use it can't pay for it; the best they have to offer is credit...
...already appeared in Japanese financial and industrial reports to General MacArthur's headquarters. Example: silver bars. When U.S. officers found an unreported hoard of silver concealed under a pile of steel scrap in a factory, the Japanese explained that they had not meant to falsify the questionnaire on precious metals; they thought the military government had asked them to report on stocks of quicksilver...