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From such a countryside not yet at war, but grimly preparing for the worst, did Finland's gruff, humbly born, dark-bearded and deeply beloved President Kyosti Kallio last week depart. He left Helsinki by air for Stockholm to confer in desperate earnest with the three tall, umptigenarian Kings of Scandinavia, all markedly democratic, each a devout Lutheran and all keenly aware that the unleashed might of ruthless, un-Christian Bolsheviks and Nazis now menaces the peaceful Nordic States...
...Peace by Conference? What States would confer? If the conference were five-sided-Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia-the Nazis would have the majority edge. Would Italy sit in with Russia? Benito Mussolini has been trying for years to get a four-power conference together, but in his plan Russia was the wallflower. That Russia is very much interested in current peace-talking was evident from the official reaction to Hitler's speech. Said J. Stalin's Izvestia this week: "One may respect or hate Hitlerism, just as any other system of political views. This...
...give J. Stalin a free hand to take Bessarabia from Rumania, created such a sensation that both Rumanian Foreign Minister Grigore Gafencu and Bulgarian Premier George Kiosseivanov announced they were smarting on the morrow for Moscow, then abruptly canceled their visits and let it be known they would confer with the Turkish Foreign Minister as he passes through the Balkans on his way back to Ankara...
...necessary. The Gallup index to his personal popularity leaped from 56.6% in August to 61%-only 1.5% short of his re-election majority in 1936. Finally, in the oval office where maps graphed the death of Poland, he received six Republicans, nine Democrats, but no confirmed isolationists, to confer on national unity for Peace...
...them. ". . . The elimination of the net profits of distribution all along the line from primary producer to consumer would result in an average saving of no more than three cents out of every dollar paid by consumers for finished goods." The research done, ten economic bigwigs were asked to confer, formulate a "program of action." They nibbled like scared mice at the big cheese of distribution, recommended: strict accuracy in labeling and advertising, consumer education, commodity research, careful cost analysis of distribution industries. To meet increasingly costly conveniences offered by retailers (credit, free delivery, Smith girls behind the counter, swank...