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Early this month, Bernard Mannes Baruch gave the Wall Street Journal an interview which was a great comfort to U.S. appeasers (of whom Baruch is not one). If Hitler wins Europe, said he, then Hitler, not the U.S., will be "on the spot" economically. "Where can she sell her products?" Not in the U.S., old Europe's No. 1 market; and the U.S. could also keep Hitler out of any desired neutral market simply by keeping its own prices down...
...Southeast's railroads, at suggestion of Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch, will even lend TVA Diesel locomotives if they prove a useful substitute for water power. Olds's estimate of how much of the shortage this scheme will meet: more than 500,000 kilowatts...
That measure is the Priorities Bill, creating powers which the World War I Congress would never grant the War Industries Board-power to do legally things which Bernard M. Baruch had to wangle by what he called "buttering and honey-fuggling." Only Army and Navy contracts now have mandatory priorities...
Over all the Army and Navy Munitions Board stood, exercising military priority rights. And at the President's side Harry Hopkins worked as liaison man with the British, again affecting priorities. In the background stood Bernard M. Baruch, the single chief of priorities in World War I, warning with the voice of experience that single control was essential if the U.S. is to be successfully armed...
...then, as last week, there was a cumulative set of circumstances which required the event which finally came (in March 1918): the naming of one able administrator with power to direct the whole effort. In 1918, that man was Bernard Mannes Baruch. Up to last week, that requirement was still...