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...Lauchlin Currie's report on his February trip helped the President reach his decision to: 1. Cultivate better relations with Soviet Russia...
This was a final surrender by Budd and the A.A.R. on the issue of expansion. In the summer of 1939, when Washington began worrying about rail capacity, Presidential Assistant Lauchlin Currie worked out an ingenious plan to let railroads turn in their old equipment for new, finance modernization at almost no interest cost. Tacked on to the Administration's Lend-Spend Bill, the plan was defeated because of A.A.R. opposition...
Back of these reforms, letter and spirit, one of the strongest influences was the U.S., represented by the bespectacled face of Lauchlin Currie, economic aide to President Roosevelt. Currie went to Chungking early this year, at the invitation of the National Government, to try to unravel its snarled finances, set up a working budget. But his mission developed into a high-powered diplomatic errand...
...long before the Potomac sailed there was a question of how much rest the President could get. Before leaving Washington he had conferred with Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox and Colonel Donovan, home from the wars. He went over Lauchlin Currie's final report on his trip to China. He talked over the setup of a "home defense" for the U. S. in a conference with ex-Ambassador William Bullitt, Assistant Federal Security Administrator Wayne Coy, Budget Director Harold Smith, Harry Hopkins. Before traintime he saw Secretary of War Stimson, talked with William Knudsen about appointments...
Last week Lauchlin Currie, back in Washington, was still at work on his report to President Roosevelt. The most retiring of the President's "anonymous" assistants, he would not say a word about his trip. But from Chungking bits of news about it came in as fast as the Clippers could fly the Pacific. There was no question about the effect on China of Lauchlin Currie's visit: Chinese thought it was wonderful. The Chinese had been heartened by this sign of U. S. interest, had given the President's emissary all honors and all opportunities...