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...grants are payments to the U.S. in return for lend-lease loans...
Unable to get foreign currency to buy raw materials, factories cut production to 30% of capacity. The big Philips electric-bulb plant at Natanya was dismantled and its equipment shipped back to Holland. The government, which has already forced its citizens to lend it 10% of their currency holdings and bank deposits, last week imposed a new forced loan on property owners. Israel's first devaluation had come when pockets were full and shop windows empty. Now, at the second devaluation, pockets are empty and shopwindows are full-full of tins of canned tomatoes and figs, "frustrated exports" waiting...
...Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs: Walter S. (for Spencer) Robertson, 59, first-family Virginia investment banker and sometime China hand. A Democrat (who liked Ike in '52), Robertson went to work for the Government during World War II, served as chief of the Lend-Lease mission to Australia, then as embassy counselor and chargé d'affaires in China's wartime capital, Chungking. In 1946 he headed the truce enforcement commission set up by the Marshall mission. After Marshall's makeshift appeasement failed, Robertson quit the foreign service, went back to banking with...
Calm & Cunning. Judgments on Stalin varied astonishingly among those free to assess him-outsiders who saw him compatriots who broke with him. U.S. Businessman Donald Nelson, caught up in the heady transactions of Lend-Lease, found Stalin "a regular fellow, and a very friendly sort of fellow, in fact." "He is the most vindictive man on earth," said Leonid Serebriakov, who had known Stalin for years. "If he lives long enough, he will get every one of us who ever injured him in speech or action." Stalin purged Serebriakov, along with some millions of others, in 1937. Wrote starry-eyed...
...group is an ad hoc pressure organization to lend support to N.A.T.O...