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...Monaco must be "an oasis." Eventually the Germans came to Monaco too-at first in mufti to relax in the Prince's fabelhaft (fabulous) Casino and to goggle earnestly at his fabelhaft aquarium. Before they left, they had stripped the great gambling Casino in Monte Carlo of its copper dome, placed ack-ack batteries in the Tir aux Pigeons (one of Europe's famed shooting grounds), sowed mines in the sun-drenched beach. Even now Prince Louis could hear the lethal crump! crump! as Allied engineers exploded the mines...
Back to the Hills. In 1942, WPB banned U.S. gold mining because the U.S. did not need gold, and badly needed trained miners to produce copper and other vitally necessary metals. That situation has not changed materially, but the political situation has. Under strong and well-placed pressure, WPB last week set July 1 as the date gold-mine operators may resume the profitable business of digging gold out of the Rockies-to be reburied at Fort Knox...
...became scarce when hoarders buried and manufacturers melted down copper and nickel coins. Then the Government changed the Brazilian monetary unit from the milreis to the cruzeiro. The paper cruzeiros were ordered printed in the U.S. German submarines sank the entire shipment. But last week an end to Brazil's currency famine was at hand. Frantic officials had rushed a ton of new one and two cruzeiro notes (value: 5? and 10?) from the U.S. to Rio, hoped presently to retire the aspirin tablets...
...consequences for the world are still incalculable. Through it all, Hirohito remained a model Shinto sovereign-conventional, secluded, aloof, a proper family man as well as national deity. He rose early each morning (6 or 7 a.m.), shaved himself, bowed before the little shrine of his ancestors in his copper-domed Tokyo castle, breakfasted in foreign style on coffee, bacon & eggs, shuffled through the papers on his desk. Thirteen times a year, clad in the white silk robe of high priest, he officiated at major Shinto rites. His wartime frugality set an example to all. He had his underwear thriftily...
...cache in a Seigen (Germany) copper mine (TIME, April 16) was reported to contain Rubens' Descent to Hades, El Greco's Cross Carrier, Rembrandt's Self Portrait, Van Dyck's Holy Family, was estimated at some...