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London's Financial Times gloomed, "soaking the rich again." But in fact Brit ain's first full peacetime budget, slanted slightly socialist, offered everybody a little something, sent industrial shares up a respectable 1% and Government securities to ten-year highs...
Shorn of this special nationalist fungus, geopolitics is a simple, sensible, and often obvious business, based on the plain truth that geography influences history. At Munich's Geopolitical Institute, Haushofer did much painstaking, genuinely scientific work. Almost directly derived from Brit ain's distinguished geographer, Sir Halford Mackinder, were his more significant theorems...
Plump, brilliant Geoffrey Crowther. editor of London's influential Economist, also edits Transatlantic on the side. Its purpose: to interpret Americans to Brit ons. In a recent issue of his monthly, Editor Crowther -appraised British and American attitudes toward each other in the dusk of Lend-Lease cancellation, Big Power troubles, hunger in Europe and plenty in America. What he had to say was still news last week in a U.S. playing host to Clement Attlee and negotiating a loan for Britain...
...sure if the circumstances were reversed and we or the Americans asked for similar access to the Russian arsenal, it would not be granted. ... I cannot myself feel the slightest anxiety as a Brit ish subject that these great powers are at the present moment in the hands of the United States. ... We should aid the United States to guard this weapon as a sacred trust for the maintenance of peace...
Molotov in London switched over to a demand that Russia get some Italian colony (Tripolitania or Eritrea) under a one-power trusteeship. The U.S. and Brit ain promptly plumped hard for joint trusteeships...