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...actual strength is unknown; national reactions to outside pressure are always uncertain. But, a total embargo against Argentina might interrupt the happy moneymoon of prosperity, make the present regime intensely unpopular, force Peron from power-unless it infuriated the proud Argentines, turned them still further away from...
Without Love (TIME, April 27) has gained no luster since its three-month tour last spring. A coyly told story of two young people (Katharine Hepburn and Elliot Nugent) who marry for companionship, in due time lift the embargo on sex and wind up madly in love, it is chiefly a field day for Katharine Hepburn and her dressmaker. Actress Hepburn makes the most of her coltish charm. Playwright Barry contributes some witty wisecracks, but not much else...
...Walter H. Judd, able surgeon, who returned to the U.S. in 1938 to stump for an embargo against Japan, after spending the better part of a decade as a medical missionary in China. Elected from Minnesota, dark-haired, bespectacled Republican Dr. Judd, 44, will give House stenographers a busy workout; his customary rate of speech is 240 words per minute (the norm...
...Axis record of his West Coast longshoremen's union, the labor leader expressed regret only that the union voted a proposal to anticipate the scrap metal embarge against Japan on their own initiative. If his union had tied up shipments to Tokio in the single week before the government embargo took effect, he explained remorsefully, as much essential metal as has been collected in all the nation's scrap drives would have remained on this side of the Pacific...
...Senator voted against slum clearance and low cost housing, needed government reorganization, against extension of TVA, and against CCC and aid for the unemployed. In foreign affairs, he voted against repeal of the disastrous arms embargo, against the trade pacts, backbone of the Good Neighbor policy and against sending an army abroad, thus tying the hands of the military. This is neither the record of a humanitarian, a leader, or a statesman...