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With the British bankers and Government negotiators in person Minister Nash was equally persuasive. He signed with British President of the Board of Trade Oliver Stanley a joint memorandum outlining New Zealand's future trade policy in which Great Britain recognizes New Zealand's necessity for reducing imports, approves the methods adopted. For her part, New Zealand promises to foster Anglo-New Zealand trade, assures Great Britain that no uneconomic industries will be protected. Most important, Britain granted New Zealand $45,000,000 in credits ($25,000,000 to be spent on defense, $20,000,000 on imports...
...last-minute appeal to Hitler during the Munich Crisis, which he coauthored. Most conspicuous coup was a "confidential" memo, which he issued two months before on the Monopoly Investigation (he called the village grocer as much of a monopolist as any trust). One motive behind the Monopoly memorandum was Berle Jr.'s private feud with competitive White House counsellor, hearty, pragmatic Tom Corcoran, who did not plan the Monopoly Investigation as just another outlet for Berle's talents...
...Walsh-Sweezy case that marked the turning point in the Union's increasing concentration on Harvard affairs, as it led the fight for the retention of the two young Economics instructors. Besides issuing a pamphlet denouncing the Administration's attitude toward the Social Sciences, the Union circulated a memorandum requesting a thorough investigation of the Walsh-Sweezy case...
Signed by 131 junior teaching officers, the memorandum was addressed to the nine professors who were later appointed by the President to examine not only the dismissal case, but also the broader questions of tenure, teaching, and research...
Last week the Times's, lawyers put the men who run the paper on the stand. Managing Editor James testified that the memorandum was "a joke" and the word "spies" referred only to "voluntary informants." Colonel Julius Ochs Adler, general manager of the Times, said that the paper had once had an espionage system but has eliminated it. Publisher Sulzberger admitted the Times had kept close watch on some of its employes, defended the practice as an effort "to avoid raising issues with the Guild." While he was on the stand Publisher Sulzberger took the opportunity of declaring himself...