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International Opinion. In its appeal to internationalism, the Keynes proposal struck a broader, more philosophic note than the American proposal. By emphasizing the power of veto, the White plan suggests a fatal Anglo-American split, which would doom any plan...
...January 1846 universal peace seemed assured at last: Biela's comet was about to wipe out the world. But, as comet and Earth rushed toward the fatal conjunction, a watcher in the U.S. Naval Observatory saw the "ominous and inconceivable" happen-Biela's comet split in two. This lucky break permitted history to crowd into the balance of that amazing year a series .of events (of which the Mexican War and the westward migration are best known) that cause Historian Bernard DeVoto to believe that 1846 was the great divide in U.S. history. He has written this book...
...fight against inflation has begun belatedly and has only begun. The ranks of labor and the farm bloc have not been split, but only temporarily subdued, by the presidential directive, and they may yet help turn the tide towards inflation. Congress did its inflationary bit with the Debt Extension Bill by over-"riding" the demands for a $25,000 ceiling on wages. But price and wage ceilings are essentially "therapeutic" and not "prophylactic" measures. They are the pound of prevention that is not worth an ounce of cure. The forgotten factor of anti-inflation policy is the curbing of spending...
Until recently C.I.O. has tried to hush-hush the split between its Communist minority and its vast rank & file. By the time hard-hitting, straight-talking Jim Carey was through, the hush was ended, and his own position as a top-rank C.I.O. officer was abundantly plain. Said he: "We believe that the shaping of a new world is the fundamental responsibility of labor in all countries, and we of the C.I.O. are dedicated to that goal. . . . Having made this clear, let me make equally plain that we do not view this program for common action...
Ever since C.I.O. split off from A.F. of L. in 1935, labor statesmen have wondered how to put labor's Humpty Dumpty together again. The latest attempt: a joint committee to iron out jurisdictional disputes. Last week came a candid editorial by Daniel J. Tobin, head of the A.F. of L. teamsters' union and member of the committee. Teamster Tobin, his patience petering, told how the patching job was going...