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...treaty's terms were kept a military secret, but bragging Nazis let it be known that they expected the exchange of German manufactures, arms and industrial installations for Russian oil, wheat, cotton, fodder and manganese to reach more than $400,000,000-i.e., more than in 1931, the banner year for Soviet-German trade. Most people thought the Nazis were having day dreams...
When the Russians first tried to walk into Finland, across the Karelian Isthmus and around the shores of Lake Laatokka, the Finns described the troops they slaughtered as cannon fodder. When Russia's thrusts across Finland's narrow waist bogged down, then turned into the rout of Suomussalmi, the Finns contemptuously pointed out that the drives had been haphazardly planned, poorly supplied. But when, last fortnight, Russia began pounding away on all fronts, there was every indication that this mightiest offensive of the war had been carefully planned, was well supplied, and employed seasoned Red Army troops...
Last week Nazi pamphleteers turned out new copy which was dropped in France. It boasted, nonsensically, that Germany had received "a million tons of cereals and two million tons of fodder" from Russia. But it tried chiefly to drive a wedge between Britain and France by means...
...July 1934 and July 1937 was $699,000,000. Of this, $252,000,000 was in tea, coffee, rub ber, silk, bananas and other items noncompetitive with U. S. products; $141,000,000 was in imports required to supplement items affected by the 1935-36 drought-corn, wheat, barley, fodder, butter, etc. But these imports, Mr. Hull can show conclusively, did not displace U. S. farm products; they supplemented the U. S. supply, prevented a shortage. Further, they came in because farm prices were high, and their only effect on domestic prices was to check a rise to famine levels...
...diplomatic fire last week were similar Allied agreements with Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium. Pre-empted by Britain would be Norway's usual spring exports to Germany of whale oil and her ring. In Denmark's case, British control of the fodder imports needed for Danish dairy products has brought about a tacit under standing with Germany whereby, unless Britons can get their Danish breakfast bacon, Nazis shall go without Danish butter...