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...negotiate a peaceful settlement with Russia; 2) restrain the "breakneck" pace of U.S. rearmaments; 3) resist German rearmament and Franco Spain's admission to the Atlantic alliance; 4) maintain veto power over any warlike mission of a U.S. bomber using British bases; 5) use more stringent socialist controls to keep down the cost of living in Britain; 6) establish, with Russian participation, a World Mutual Aid Plan (which would have to be largely financed by the wicked, capitalist U.S.) to help underprivileged countries...
...illegal trade has reached such alarming proportions that U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy came home last month to report to Washington and discuss more stringent countermeasures. McCloy was sure that most of the smuggling and tricks for getting around the trade bans were the work of professional operators financed by "Communist agents who are throwing a good bit of gold around." Most formidable of all the professionals are Ernst Wollweber and the trained, dedicated underground men of his apparatus...
...extensively in recent months that West German industrialists announced last week they were planning a mutual security program to protect their plants. His smooth exploitation of the West Germans' desire for trade and of the opportunities for smuggling was working so well that occupation authorities were considering stringent measures. As a sample, the U.S. ECA mission to Germany took steps last week to withhold 6,000,000 marks in ECA counterpart funds from a Ruhr steel firm that has been engaging in illegal trade with the Communists. It was the first, but probably not the last, real countermeasure against...
...clubs have accepted the program, but with stringent reservations. The graduate boards of governors of Cannon and Charter clubs agreed to let students serve at their tables but only if enough other clubs do the same...
This would apply to the two bills that provoked wild hearings at the State House during committee hearings earlier this year. One bill would outlaw the Communist Party in this state, and another would impose stringent penalties for "subversive" actions and require loyalty oaths of teachers, state employees, and lawyers...