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France, largest of the conquered nations, had to bind itself to pay tribute in francs equal to $3,000,000,000 a year. A cutting commentary on Nazi economics is the fact that currency inflation has reached a point where the actual value of the reparations payment is down from the original $8,000,000 a day to something less than...
...Allegiance, New Policy? Portugal's entire foreign policy is based on her traditional alliance with Britain. The oldest national friendship in Europe, it runs back in one form or another to 1294. Terms of the alliance bind Britain to aid Portugal, leave Portugal free to pursue benevolent neutrality and make her own decision whether or when she should be come an active war ally in the Atlantic. Japan forcibly occupied Portuguese Timor in the Pacific, and is reported to be exercising illegal military control over the colony of Macao on the China coast. Either fact would be ample reason...
This week, for the first time, U.S. Protestant, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Jewish leaders united on a peace program. Appended to their "Declaration on World Peace" were 144 signatures.* These signatures do not bind any church to the peace proposals, they do commend the peace declaration to some 56,000,000 members of the participating faiths...
...knock down fighters increases out of all proportion as the numoers are increased. So it is that in the U.S.'s huge aircraft production (nearly 8,000 in September) airmen see something more than aircraft of superior quality. They also see numbers as decisive, an outlook that may bind the U.S. to more extensive postwar production of aircraft and a larger peacetime air force than most U.S. citizens now expect...
...victory. But in the months of the growing crisis their voice became stronger. Last April Milan Grol submitted to Premier Yovanovich a memorandum criticizing the Government's failure to: 1) smooth out relations with Russia; 2) bring about a rapprochement between the Partisans and General Draja Mihailovich; 3) bind the Government to a policy of Serbo-Croatian-Slovenian unity in federal democracy. The memorandum was never submitted to the Cabinet...