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Last week the President took a long step toward economic warfare. When he froze the U.S. assets (and future financial transactions) of the 16 remaining unfrozen European countries (see p. 13), he did not merely lock the stable door too late. Though the big horse was gone, several ponies still fed in the U.S. stall. Dividends and patent royalties due Germans have been piling up in the U.S., providing dollars that could easily be used to finance the Gestapo in this Hemisphere as well as at home. Some of the newly frozen neutrals, notably Switzerland, have been financial servants...
...Even private owners of twin-engined Lock-heeds (including Tom Girdler) were asked by OPM to give up their "air yachts...
...About Nostradamus, were foretold. But the quatrain which heartened last week's cinemagoers most was the final one: "At last the two leaders shall be disjointed by the hunt, by a humane rule of Anglican breed, the daughter of the English Isles shall re-establish unity, justice, shall lock war within its bars." Interpretation: The U.S. will win World...
When Kern went into exile, almost a child, he had everything to learn. He learned fast: to live as though he were never going back; to exploit every opportunity ; to pick a lock; to quiet watchdogs; to box; to speak French. He learned also that prison clothes save wear & tear on your own; that a good-looking overcoat, though it puts off benefactors, also puts off police; that trickery, to succeed, must be simple; that the safest places for exiles are churches, museums and police stations; that an exile has three wars to fight, for food, for shelter, and against...
Sealed in her Washington bedroom by a paint-stopped lock, while her politically prognosticative husband partied at the Greek legation, blonde, handsome Mrs. Emil Hurja shouted and pounded until "the handsomest policemen you ever saw" arrived and freed...