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...that defeated the Ramadier regime: a grossly inflated economy that has scaled prices fifty percent above normal with only a twenty-five percent wage increase and a suicidal factionalism among France's myriad political parties. To replace the vacuum that characterized Ramadier's ten months in power, Schuman proposes stringent budget supervision, a wholesale stabilization of national currency, and an all-out war against Communist-inspired strikes. His purely economic solutions can be effected through prudent government alone, but when M. Schuman intends to crush the present widespread strikes, he must deal with unions that are controlled by a Communist...
...thwart Russian expansion through a rebirth of European industry and by fostering confidence in democratic forms of government. Although U. S. loans will provide the necessary funds, the actual burden of economic recovery rests with each individual nation. Those countries receiving American aid must insure their recovery by stringent budget supervision, a complete stabilization of national currencies, and the use of export profits solely to pay off current debts. The mechanics of such a plan are unassailable. Each nation can a block of strong, competent democracies facing Russia would soothe a fidgety State Department...
...entire chain of counter-espionage. In such cases, as Associate Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger declared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine recently, "the FBI must, choose between the chain and the conviction." For it is true, in every case, that the government's loyalty program, unless it provides stringent safeguards for the individual, will pass over the line of necessary security and become just that sort of unnecessary purge that Americans have denounced, from Thomas Jefferson's time to ours...
...view of the wholesale destruction of bound newspaper copies, the cross-hatching of back examination forms, and the tendency to question the statements of unpopular authors with ink and bad taste, the library staff may be forced to apply thumb screws where simple warnings fail. However, even the most stringent regulations would only tax the ingenuity of college doodle bugs; any real amelioration of the situation must come from the students, who are, in the long run, the victims of their own stupidity. A badly defaced book not only annoys the reader, but its usable life is cut from twenty...
According to the Tax Commissioner's Office, men declaring legal residence in Massachusetts will not be subject to stringent tax policies. Massachusetts assesses a two dollar Poll Tax on all citizens and allows residents a $2000 state income tax exemption plus an additional $500 deduction per wife...