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When the Bolsheviks overthrew the liberal Kerensky Government, Kerensky's foreign minister, learned History Professor Paul Miliukov, told Hoover he had hidden tsarist archives in a barn in Finland. "If you can get them," said Miliukov, "you can have them." "Getting them was no trouble at all," says Hoover. "We were feeding Finland at the time...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt locked the barn door last week and ordered a searching party out to look for the horse. The President with quick strokes of a pen affixed his signature to an order freezing all Axis assets in the U.S., along with those of all other European countries not yet frozen...
...that he had long hoped could be avoided. Only a fortnight back, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, who for months had urged the President to take the step, virtually conceded that his freezing plan had been abandoned. Pressed to explain, he said it was too late: "The barn is empty. The horse is gone." Asked whether it was "a very big horse," Mr. Morgenthau sadly answered: "Well, it was larger than a Shetland pony...
Though Mr. Morgenthau's horse had been spirited away, the barn was not completely empty. Washington estimated that Germany and Italy together still had investments amounting to some $300,000,000 in the U.S., not counting hidden assets...
...reasons I'm unhappy [is] the dressing room they have given me over here. It's a great big barn of a place . . . but the thing is they have put thirty guys in here with me. ... I don't know who they are ... they have brought beds in here and are lying around. . . . I was treated much better ... at Warner Bros...