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Meanwhile, pitiful remnants of Poland's Jews continued to flee the country by any means and with the utmost speed possible. TIME Correspondent John Scott last week estimated that within a year all the Jews would have left Poland, which once harbored four-fifths of all the Jews in the world...
...Workmen's associations should be so organized and governed as to furnish the best and most suitable means for attaining what is aimed at, that is to say, for helping each individual member to better his condition to the utmost in body, mind and property...
...whole trouble seems to me to be that the Allies want, on the one hand, to enforce with the utmost strictness the terms of the Versailles Treaty, and, on the other hand, want to maintain Germany in a condition where she can be a military bulwark against Russian Bolshevism. These two attitudes cannot be reconciled except by the exercise of the most farseeing statesmanship; and I doubt whether the men who are now directing the affairs of Europe are farseeing statesmen...
...rationing the answer? Herbert Hoover thought not. "If we can succeed in persuading every man and woman, every nation to do their utmost, we shall master this famine." His familiar suggestions for closing the gap without rationing: 1) voluntary reduction in diet by every U.S. citizen; 2) get every grain of cereal to market...
Last week, ten months to the day from the first atomic explosion, Harry Truman announced that U.N.'s Atomic Energy Commission (set up in January to "proceed with the utmost dispatch") would meet on June 14. That will not end the delay: Washington means to wait...