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...friendship of the New Deal. It is a good customer for his useless silver. It may, if his negotiations are successful, even become a good customer for Mexico's expropriated oil. In such delicate times, Avila Camacho, for all his hospitality to pioneering principles, would not want to incur Washington's displeasure by letting his country be exploited too fast...
...barroom law are about the same. The U. S. is less well prepared to back up its criticisms of the Axis Powers than the Allies were. Therefore it is the height of foolishness for our nation to stick its head in the lion's jaws and incur the enmity of the German people, particularly at the present time. . . . The highly vocal but locally infinitesimal minority of our people who call for aid to the Allies "short of war" gives an entirely wrong impression of real public sentiment hereabouts. We feel that such actions are not "short...
Underlying Cromwell's blunder is a basic fault in the administration of our diplomatic service. American ambassadors receive salaries far too small for the expenses which they are bound to incur as official representatives of the United States Government. The result quite naturally is that very few men can afford to accept the responsibility of diplomatic service and we must expect incompetence...
...Queen Elizabeth would incur no new rental charges at Cunard's Pier 90, chartered by the year for $189,188. But Mauretania, moved to new space to make room for Q. E., will entail a new rental fee for Cunard. Mauretania was berthed at Pier 86, which until October was rented to North German Lloyd and held the Bremen just before her dash home...
...could be eager to assume it. Unless the whole present tendency of the Government is redirected, we cannot long maintain financial solvency or free enterprise or even individual liberty in the United States. But the leaders of the movement against New Deal fallacies must have the courage to incur the unlimited displeasure of every vested interest whose selfish purposes conflict with a radical policy of reform. Furthermore, they must work out the very difficult problem of continuing an adequate provision for the less fortunate people through Relief, old age pensions, subsidized housing and the like on the one hand, while...