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This outbreak was exactly what President Velasco had tried to avoid. A leftist, he had, nevertheless, acted with moderation. He believed that Ecuador vitally needed reforms, especially on the great estates where the Indians (the bulk of the population) lived in virtual serfdom. But he knew that too-drastic reforms might provoke conservatives to open reaction. Last week the Assembly was still trying to agree on a constitution. But most Ecuadorians wished that it, too, would quietly go home, and leave to President Velasco the ticklish job of cleaning up Ecuador's economic system...
...Government's virtual ban on convention travel (deadline, Feb. 1) made this convention the last such gathering any of the buyers would attend until the transportation crisis eases. They were already strapped for merchandise (anything they bought was as good as sold), but with few exceptions the apparel manufacturers were accepting no new customers. They were favoring the old ones only with 75% to 80% of last year's orders and talking direly of slow deliveries. Furthermore, spokesmen warned all & sundry that the apparel industry faces a possible 1945 decline of $500,000,000 in retail dollar volume...
President Raymond Walters of the University of Cincinnati had earlier predicted that dwindling registration would make, 1945-46 one of the financially shakiest years in educational history, with the virtual vanishing of military units which have held up the treasurer's report at many war-emptied colleges. The colleges' chief hope of solvency, said Walters, was the tuition of veterans staked to free schooling by the GI Bill of Rights...
...virtual reign of terror prevails in Bulgaria, in which ordinary civil rights are almost nonexistent. Such elementary democratic principles as free speech and free press criticism are taboo. The writer, having just returned from a six-weeks' stay in Bulgaria, is convinced that the vast majority of the people in that country are bitterly disillusioned. They ardently are hoping for early Allied action to establish a democratic regime...
Last week, after more than a year of trying to make up their minds, the Governments of the U.S. and Britain recognized General Charles de Gaulle's Government as the Provisional Government of France. So did the Canadian Government. Russia, which had already given virtual de facto recognition (after the Quebec Conference in August 1943) to De Gaulle's Government, now also recognized it de jure...