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Tempus Fugit, Status Quo. With Hope and Durante on the same bill, no show could lose. If Variety could produce their equivalents each week, Philco's Radio Hall of Fame might turn out to be the most entertaining hour in U.S. radio. One question raised by the new show was whether Variety could engage in showbusiness without losing its journalistic integrity. Editor Green had an answer for that...
...scrams to her statue quo ante...
They kept the "peace" of central and eastern Europe for a few decades-and with it the status quo. Inasmuch as keeping the imperial status quo meant squelching every liberal chick in its egg, the Alliance eventually could not stand against the rise of liberal fervor in Europe...
...will need to realize that it cannot safely relax into a simple alliance or loose confederation, made holier by lip service to democracy and dedicated to the maintenance of the status quo. It will have to find a framework for world order which, while keeping the peace better than before, permits change. It will have to find a framework which will make allowance for the fundamental U.S. bias toward freedom and growth for itself and for others...
Life As It Was. Many a hardheaded American, secretly scoffing at punditical peace planners, believes his nation already has a long-range foreign policy. Such Americans see the world on a status quo basis, with Germany left as a nation under a new government, conquered nations restored to about their prewar boundaries, the gold standard re-established and attempts to expand foreign trade limited to bigger and better reciprocal trade agreements and whatever reduction of tariffs could be worked...