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What I did do, was to criticize the friendly attitude of the Democratic governments--including the United States--toward the Peron dictatorship which was and still in economy. I particularly referred in my criticism to a "credit" of 125 million dollars extended in 1950 by the U.S. Export-Import Bank to the Argentine government in order to rescue it from its calamitous financial condition. But I never exhorted anybody but the Argentines themselves to stand up and solve our Argentine problem...
Since mid-September, Elmer has done his act over & over for the benefit of farmers in Italy, France and Holland, all of which are increasing their corn crop, to save import dollars. MSA figured that the farmers could raise even more if they learned to harvest in the traditional U.S. style instead of lugging each ear home to be stripped at a husking bee around the family hearth...
Allende, an expert on South American affairs, described Argentina's economic situation as "acute." He pointed to the decreased output of wheat in Argentina, once the world's second largest wheat exporter, and said the country was now forced to import at least 6 million bushels yearly from the U.S. Allende cited this and decreased industrial outputs as results of the growing "passive resistence" to the Peron regime...
...Cultural Organization early discovered that ideas could transcend almost anything but foreign exchange. In those days, even with UNESCO's help, a student in a soft-currency nation who wanted to sample hard-currency wisdom in printed form had to negotiate with a staggering array of government agencies, import license bureaus, customs men and international bankers. Four years ago UNESCO tried printing exchangeable coupons, but found itself still hamstrung by the differing currencies of its member nations...
Virtue seems to be getting the upper hand, however. Walcott admitted yesterday, "we'd better get an import permit; the customs may be laying for as this time...