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...will now start on Nov. 15. ¶ The committee will not waste time junketing to Pearl Harbor. ¶ All Army & Navy personnel will be free to testify without any fear of subsequent court-martial or detriment to their future promotion. ¶ The question of whether or not Cordell Hull's blast of Nov. 26, 1941 actually set off the war (as the Army Pearl Harbor Board had charged) was apparently settled; it did not. Navy Secretary Forrestal reported the finding of documents in a sunken Jap vessel which showed that the Pearl Harbor attack had been approved...
...starving. This was not only bigheartedness on Canada's part. In the long haul, said Jim MacKinnon, Canada would benefit by being generous. "Higher wheat prices [now] would encourage the importing countries in a hurried return to wheat production" of their own, to Canada's ultimate detriment. There was a domestic reason for the decision as well: it would hold the line against inflation...
What this might mean in Big Power relations became apparent last week when the British speculated on whether their lend-leaseless poverty would force immediate withdrawal of military forces from Europe and the Far East to the detriment of Britain's postwar political position. Also directly involved was Britain's basic economic policy of government-controlled foreign trade and foreign exchange; as the price of U.S. credits, the U.S. might demand that Britain relax trade controls...
...National Foreign Trade Council, recognizing what many cartels have done to fix prices and control production to the detriment of consumers, would have the U.S. stand firm against cartels in home in dustry. But it would permit U.S. firms to make agreements with foreign cartels, require them to be filed with the Department of State. Unless the State Department found within three months that the agreement unreasonably restrained trade within the U.S., then the deal would be blessed by the Department...
...chenille-voiced character named Mr. Sidney (Thomas Mitchell), who seems to have some curious authority over her genteel relatives; an overseer (Elisha Cook Jr.), who starts courting her with all the cozy intimacy of a vampire bat; and a local physician (Franchot Tone) who, somewhat to the detriment of the picture, is obviously a man she can depend...