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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Mr. Baruch's sanguine views were answered by a man who had spent 15 years in German-U.S. commercial negotiations. He is Douglas Miller, until 1939 U.S. Commercial Attaché in Berlin, now assistant professor of economics at the University of Denver's School of Commerce. In a brief, brilliant, conversational book called You Can't Do Business With Hitler (Little, Brown; $1.50) he describes just what it means to try to trade or compete for trade with businessmen under Nazi control. Items...
...Rome last week heavy contingents of Italian troops broke up a demonstration before the U.S. Embassy, then ostentatiously stood guard day & night. Italian officers were forbidden to speak to U.S. attachés. U.S. films were banned from Italy. Professor Guido Manacorda of the University of Florence made a speech before the Italian Center for American Studies in which he called the U.S. "a civilization of robbers, the godless, the divorcees, the gangsters, the lynchers, the strikers and the unemployed...
Such incidents were not simply expressions of resentment against the U.S. for seizing Italian ships and ousting an air attaché (see p. 17). They were steps in a carefully planned campaign, similar in detail and in purpose to the campaign which preceded Italy's declaration of war against Great Britain and France last June...
Through his great & good friend Hamilton Fish Armstrong, onetime U.S. military attaché in Belgrade, now editor of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Petrovitch got a berth on WRUL, a 50,000-watt powerhouse, last fall. Conditions under which he agreed to operate were simple: a two-month trial at broadcasting three times a week, with no interference from anyone. Within three weeks, the State Department was advised by Arthur Bliss Lane, its Minister in Belgrade, that Dr. Petrovitch was becoming a potent force in Yugoslavia, that he ought to be aired every...
...name of His Majesty's Government ... I offer to the United States our gratitude for her inspiring act of faith." In the House of Commons, where these words were spoken, members on the floor smiled and waved at the gallery, where sat eight conspicuously uniformed U. S. military attach...