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Discusses the author's experience of traveling in Great Britain to study socialism. Reasons behind the decision of the Ministry of Food to sell meat to the public at lower prices; Impact of the nationalization of the coal industry on coal supply; Rules set by the government for farmers who want to kill their hogs.

Presents information on the Lend-Lease food and modern nutritional science that make the people in Great Britain healthy in 1942. Announcement of the Lend-Lease food program; Involvement of government-operated British restaurants in industrial areas in the delivery of food supplies to workers; Basis of the main objection to national rationing.

The article focuses on the decision of the British Ministry of Supply to call cats into service when rats and mice started infesting secret food camps in Great Britain. The rats and mice were also destroying thousands of pounds' worth of foodstuffs. In addition, bubonic plague, which they transmit, was beginning to spread in some locations. The cats have become so valued that it is getting to be unpatriotic when they start their nocturnal caterwauling. Furthermore, the Ministry of Food has cooperated with the Ministry of Supply to supplement the cats' diet with milk.

The author reflects on the dietary practice of British Chancellor of Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps. He prefers to have raw carrots and yogurt than a steak with onions. It is said that the austere diet of Cripps had started after he suffered from severe colitis caused by his service in World War I.

Focuses on the eviction of landowner Lady Marjorie Garbett by the British government. Violation of the rules for good husbandry of the Ministry of Agriculture by Garbett; Auction of the property in mortgage-foreclosure proceedings; Failure of the Conservative government to change the Agriculture Act of 1947, a postwar legislation sponsored by the socialistic Liberal government.

The article talks about Joe, a young man who dislike everything English. Joe told a British girl everything he did not like about Great Britain. He said mentioned about the backwardness of the British industry, horrible climate and dull food. He said that he almost lost his girlfriend in the fog. The British girl told him that no fog is needed for him to lose his girlfriend.