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Because I travel a great deal I have never been a subscriber to TIME. But because I like your newsmagazine very much indeed (although it occasionally gets me mad), I haven't missed a copy in years...
General Gamelin is a world authority on Napoleon's movements. It is his quiet boast that he can recite every Army order Napoleon issued - and to whom. But, although he is quite aware that the Po route may some day be his own, the Italian maneuvers were not his chief interest last week. Since he took charge of her armies, France has acquired a possible new border to defend or cross, the border between France and Spain. Having vainly urged Léon Blum to pitch in with the Loyalists and lick Francisco Franco in 1936, General Gamelin...
Napoleon was not the first invader to come that way. Hannibal struck from the northwest and many times in the Middle Ages and Renaissance raiders poured through the funnel-like passes that widen and slope downward into Italy. In modern times no Army has invaded France from Italy, but although the Po and its tributaries form a series of defensive positions at which Italians could check invaders who penetrate the mountain barrier, at the western end of the valley lie Turin and, further east, Milan, Italy's chief industrial centres. If they should fall, Italy's war days...
...chemical industry got a further boost when the U. S. entered the War: German patents were confiscated and turned over to U. S. firms. But after the U. S. entered the War, prices for many commodities were fixed below their neutrality highs and although war profits were bigger on bigger volume, neutrality's profits were not eaten into by high war taxes...
Actually, although Eugene Grace did not say so, the auto industry, knowing that steel is overproduced, is demanding further price cuts as an inducement to order enough future steel to keep steel production going. Steelmen were again cursing their favorite customers from Detroit...