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...long run wish to see the creation of a larger multilateral system of trade and investment in which Sterling and the Dollar are bound together. The question mark in his mind is whether the U.S., through its tariff and currency policies, will in fact help or hinder the growth of such a system. In the 19th Century the Bank of England could go it alone. In the 20th, leadership must come from both sides of the Atlantic...
Also alarming is the prospect that Anopheles gambiae may continue its progress north and breed in the myriad ponds and pools of northern Egypt, causing a disastrous epidemic which would hinder the war effort in Cairo...
...British dilem ma did not hinder the Russians or alter their developing plan. Alexander Korneichuk, new Foreign Commissar of the Soviet Ukraine (TIME, Feb. 14), may handle the Polish-border question. His wife, Wanda Wasilewska, is head of the Union of Polish Patriots. Moscow radio an nounced that her first move had been to form the Polish national council, include in it members of the "Polish Peasant, Socialist and Workers" parties and "other democratic national groupings." The Poles in London were in grave danger of being dispossessed by connubial diplomacy...
...Cape Gloucester. The Japs offered negligible ground resistance; apparently they were surprised. Their fortifications had been softened by 3,500 tons of bombs dumped on the Cape Gloucester area in almost daily raids since Dec. 1-the most sustained aerial attack of the Southwest Pacific war. Too late to hinder the American landing, the enemy sent over strongly escorted medium and dive bombers. At a cost of 61 planes, the Jap air arm sank one U.S. ship, damaged three others, shot down seven U.S. planes...
Just after an operation, ordinary skin grafts slip over the tissues beneath; but Dr. Sano's grafts stick so tightly that even a gentle pull with forceps does not move them. For a dressing she uses vaselined gauze topped with a cork ring (not so tight as to hinder circulation...