Word: fea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press conference, the President announced that he had written a letter to Foreign Economic Administrator Leo Crowley. The letter was a full set of instructions for FEA policies when the war in Europe is over, including a section on "Control of the War-Making Power of Germany...
...there had been no Cabinet battle over the Morgenthau plan, almost as if there had been no previous New Deal plans for Germany at all, the President urged FEA to accelerate its plans for the economic control of postwar Germany. FEA should see to it, the President said, "that Germany does not become a menace again...
...hole. It can blacklist all U.S. companies with Swedish affiliations, which have some $125,000,000-worth of assets in this country. This would permit the U.S. to cut off transfer of dividends and earnings to Sweden. At week's end, Leo Crowley's FEA was cautiously studying such a move. But the State Department gave the screw a turn. It added 38 more Swedish firms in neutral nations to its blacklist...
...Accepted the resignation of Leo T. Crowley as Alien Property Custodian. Now, said the President, Mr. Crowley could devote all his time and his "superior abilities" to managing his other two agencies (FDIC, FEA...
...Schwengel plan threatened to up set this. Forthwith FEA killed the plan. The U.S., said FEA coldly, was already set to get Cuba's entire sugar surplus, and that surplus would all be needed for strictly undrinkable war purposes...