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Both these books are strong medicine for current U.S. hot & cold chills of fatalism, complacency, despondency, uncertainty, overconfidence. Economist-Historian Earle, in a brief outline of U.S. foreign policy, helps bring fuzzy notions of British-American relations into proper focus with the aid of a few forgotten historical facts. Publisher Luce asks Americans to live up to their responsibilities as citizens of the world's No. 1 power...
...British-American companies who refine Government-owned Netherlands East Indies oil finally renewed their contracts with Japan, following a, November agreement which raised Japanese purchases from a basis of 494,000 to 1,800,-ooo tons a year. In case of war the East Indies has the right to allocate such oil. Last week it was still fueling the Japanese Army and Navy...
Jesse Jones gave the British a break last week on the forced liquidation of British-owned U.S. companies to pay for war supplies. Satisfied that in today's market British-American Tobacco Co. might have trouble getting $40,000.000 for their Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. subsidiary (Wings, Kool, Raleigh, Avalon), he lent them the money, left them a chance to salvage their investment, when the loan is paid off in ten years...
...Hicks the present choice is "between German fascism and British imperialism"; he prefers the latter, much as he admits and deplores its "Imperfections." To the editors, that is a craven doctrine; for "the issue is not aid to Britain against no aid to Britain, not British-American imperialism against German imperialism--it is imperialism against democracy...
...woodwork.") The talk rose in speculation about Willkie's future ("The Administration will ignore him, and so will the Republicans in Congress"-The New Republic), and about his relationship with the President who had defeated him ("The aim of the Roosevelt-Willkie-Bullitt combination ... is for a joint British-American war against the Soviet Union"-Daily Worker). But in a Washington that is far more conscious of politics than it is of the war, most of the talk of citizen to citizen raged on the question of Willkie and the Republican Party ("We leave the barefoot boy of Elwood...