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Show JamiS Pristo Painfully embarrassing silences are apt to fall among the groups of Collectivists and "planned economy" econ-omy" theorists in the capital's cocktail lounges these days when travelers return from London to tell new tales of life under Britain's Brit-ain's Labor-Socialist government. One story is of a Briton who, tired of waiting for the government govern-ment housing program to get under un-der way, built a small house on his own initiative. Then he discovered that he couldn't, by any hook or crook or any other way, get coal in any quantity to heat his new dwelling. The reason? Well, he was informed, in-formed, since his house had not been "authorized by the proper government authority"it just did not legally exist. The returning Americans are likely to remark pointedly that there must be something screwy with a "planned economy" which, in London, fills shops with an over supply of electrical heating equipment equip-ment while at the same time the Labor-Socialist government is ex horting the citizenry to econmize in the use of electric current. One observer of the "planned economy" scene in Britain writes home from London: "The fact is that the average Briton today enjoys less freedom than he had during the war. "It has been estimated that every ev-ery adult in the country has to fill in at least one form a week, and for everything he needs he must consult some government bureau sometimes several before the right one is isolated and identified. iden-tified. V "Almost literally he is unable to move without first obtaining permission from the bureaucracy. Coal, food, clothing all are rationed, ra-tioned, and everything is as scarce as during the war, or scarcer." ( |