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...object of the meeting was to reshape Soviet policy for the Balkans and eastern Europe. Reported decisions: i) the Red Army will be withdrawn by the end of next year and civilian control will be substituted; 2) Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria must be bound to the Soviet economy by stringent economic agreements; 3) nervous opposition parties must be soothed by checking open Communist infiltration...
Hungry Japs. Even in stringent wartime, Japan did not succeed in feeding herself. Without food from the overseas empire, hungry Japanese may be anything but docile. MacArthur may permit them to buy food abroad: in exchange they might sell textiles to China and other Far Eastern countries where clothes are even scarcer than food. But for a long time Japan's exports to those countries will be in reparations, not trade...
...drought was intensified by stringent wartime paper rationing and the absence, on military service, of a generation of would-be writers. Publishers who hoped that things would be better by fall were laying their potential best-sellers on ice, dishing up leftovers and scraps. There were tangible evidences of 1945's summer doldrums...
...overgenerous, as her 1941 trip was "a three-months' leave" which had now stretched to more than three years. Cinemactress Leigh, who admitted that she would be subject to Britain's labor draft if she were banned, was freed by the court, which ruled the contract "extraordinarily stringent...
...citizens have adopted in the emergency. Employees at Michaels' Drug Store have lost all respect for an aged couple who, after buying at the store together for years, sud- denly feigned non-acquaintance one morn at the peak of the crisis in order to get two packs under the stringent one-to-a-customer basis...