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After a prewar tour of duty in Lima, Peru, he was ambassador to Russia for nearly three hard years through the Hitler-Stalin pact and the Nazi invasion. Even when the Germans seemed likely to take Moscow, Steinhardt remained confident that the Russians would hang on. He laid in a 100-day food supply at an emergency refuge outside the city, an extra stock of surgical supplies, and prepared his staff for a long siege. President Roosevelt called him "a good fixer and boss trader." In 1942 F.D.R. switched him to Turkey, where Steinhardt was matched against Germany...
OWEN S. PAYNE Lima, Peru...
...Luxembourg firms were offering him the same goods for $40 less than the $104-a-ton U.S. price. In Chile, the national airlines ordered British De Havilland transports. Salvadorean textile men found they could buy Italian rayon fiber for io/ a Ib. less than the U.S. article. In Lima's streets, women wore British nylons...
Dressed in black from head to foot, frail, tiny (4 ft. 7 in.) Felicitas Amorin de Fritscher looked older than her 39 years. As she dusted the carved cedar choir stalls of Lima's 300-year-old cathedral, her son Federico, 11, worked beside her. "I came to live here 17 years ago," she said as she finished cleaning the white-enameled spittoon beside the archbishop's throne. "I was the bride of Federico Fritscher, bell-ringer and caretaker of the cathedral. The pay was small but there were tips from the tourists, and here we paid...
...three small rooms behind the cathedral. Finally the dean took steps to evict her. "This is no job for a woman," he said. "Of her six girls, two are practically young women now. The sensible thing is to force her to leave." Said a young Lima matron: "The dean is right. Her daughters are pretty and that is likely to make people talk." At week's end, after receiving a cash indemnity, the lady bellringer was turned out of her rooms. Said Felicitas : "It is el destino. And when that is against you, you can cry yourself blind...