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...custom, Bernard M. Baruch, 74, sat on a park bench one day last week -this time in London. He was not, as he usually is when sitting on his park bench in Washington, D.C., "in" to reporters. He would talk to only one: a man from Stars & Stripes. Corporal A. Victor Lasky and Baruch sat chatting together for a while, continued the conversation in Baruch's plush Claridge suite. When the phone rang (it was Churchill calling), Baruch, friend of the Prime Minister for 25 years, begged off for the moment. For Bernie Baruch had a point he wanted...
Corporal Lasky quoted Baruch as saying then: "What happens after those five or seven years depends on the peace the big boys are preparing for us now. And one reason I am over here is to hold the big stick over the big boys to make damn sure they're not going to foul up the peace...
...When Baruch saw the story Lasky wrote, he insisted on some major changes. One Baruch quote ("We've got to so de-industrialize Germany and Japan - at least for a generation - that they won't go to war again"), might make effective Ger man propaganda. The reference to the Churchill phone call might be considered too cavalier by his British hosts. And Mr. Baruch did not use language like "damn" and "foul up." Stars & Stripes obligingly cut out the offending passages - but the Associated Press had already sent Lasky's original story back...
...against reparations to the extent imposed at Versailles because he was sure Germany could never pay and that the economic burden would breed another war. By Washington account, Elder Statesman Baruch will join this time in the proposition that if reparations are heavy enough, Germany will never be able to go to war again...
Dorothy Parker, bang-browed verbal bangster, of late more preoccupied with causes than with her famed encaustics, mused: "Committee meetings poison my life. They're mainly lots of people sitting around with their heads in their hands. Then somebody finally says, 'Doesn't any body know Baruch...