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...another letter came, threatening him unless he met Gassner. He went to the U.S. consul, was advised to leave Germany. But his passport had been stolen. At last William Sebold wrote Gassner: "I accept your proposition 100 per cent." For the next month he lived in a be wildering maze of instructions in codes, radio transmission, photography , microphotography. His code book was Rachel Field's novel All This and Heaven Too. Soon he was sent to the U.S. to stay at Manhattan's 63rd St. Y.M.C.A. - "most of the crooks in America stay there," said his Nazi boss...
Politics-as-Usual. Like many another defense project, price control got lost somewhere in Washington's maze of politics-as-usual. When Henderson sat down with the committee fortnight ago, the job of talking the bill through Congress looked easy. His thesis that the nation was "on the brink of inflation" could be substantiated by simple charts: wholesale prices of 28 basic commodities were up 50% since the beginning of the war; from the pre-war level food costs were up 13%, house furnishings 4.7%, clothing 3%. Without the price bill, the U.S. would repeat its experience of World...
...personable wife put their vacation at the disposal of the British Intelligence. Their assignment: to find out whether a certain invaluable British secret agent was still functioning in Central Europe. Their qualifications: native intelligence and the fact that, as genteel trippers, they are Above Suspicion. Result: a tense maze of typically Hitchcock bit players, business and hairbreadth escapes...
...foreign-owned property in the U.S., whether controlled by countries whose assets are frozen or not. Aliens will be required to list any U.S. property worth more than $1,000 which they own now or have acquired since last June.* Thus it may be possible to track down the maze of transfers whereby Germany and Italy have concealed their actual holdings...
...present, export policy is settled by a maze of departments, including State, Treasury, Commerce, as well as several independent agencies. The Maritime Commission has jurisdiction over shipping, Federal Loan Agency over loans to foreign governments, the Agriculture Department over many hemispheric food matters, Treasury Department (and the Federal Reserve Board) over foreign funds. Justice Department over aliens. Army and Navy over foreign bases, etc. Each of these departments has a different policy, and there is no effective coordinator except the President. Better-organized foreign governments find many ways to take advantage of this unintegration...