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Consumption. Other evidence indicated that defense was carrying U. S. consumers from a potato level of subsistence toward a butter level. In defense-rich Chicago, wholesale trade was 12-15% ahead of 1939, women's dress sales were 15-30% ahead. Nationwide department-store sales in August were 10% ahead of a year ago, only 11% under August 1929. Sears, Roebuck continued to lead the procession with a 22% gain over August 1939. Most bullish note: retail managements have been as gloomy as Wall Streeters about prospects, have kept inventories low. Since August buying by stores was 30% below...
...prisoners were treated much too well. According to international law, officers do not work. After 6:30 roll call, the men clean the camp, prepare their own and officers' food. During the day they swim, play games, get brown under the Canadian sun and fat on Canadian milk & butter. At night a Nazi colonel, the highest-ranking officer, leads them in a German song fest. Except for 75 Canadian guards, the Germans might be on vacation...
...British Isles, was followed last week by little action. Nazi planes attacked a few ships off the Irish coasts. But while Germany claimed that Britain's west-coast ports were clogged with shipping in a huge maritime traffic jam, Britain reported that food imports from Ireland (butter, eggs, cattle) were normal. Fact was, the "traffic jam" in Britain's western ports was due to the arrival there during the past months of greater masses of foods and war materials from abroad than at any time since...
...choice, almost every Englishman could see clearly last week, had always been between guns and butter. That choice had not always been so clear to all Englishmen. In 1934 underfed Germany, faced with a choice of no butter or guns, chose guns. In 1934 well-fed England, faced with a choice of less butter or guns, chose butter. The issue was survival. Last week Germany in victory, Britain in jeopardy each gauged the consequences of its choice. Last week the U. S., nursing a seedling realism, also appraised those consequences in terms of the first serious threat to its continental...
...critical year was 1934. In 1934 England was still ahead of Germany in planes. In 1934 England by an effort might have kept its air lead over the Nazis. But butter was king, not guns. The League of Nations, said the Liberal and Labor Parties, made rearmament superfluous. England did not rearm in 1935 either. For this, Author Kennedy thought no one leader or party was to blame. Said he: "The blame . . . must be put largely on the British public. For 1935 was the year of the General Election." British voters postponed armament...