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Four years after war's end, Soviet Russia still keeps more than a million German and Japanese in her slave labor camps. Not all of them were taken as prisoners of war; many are civilians, including women taken from Eastern Germany. Little is known in the West about their fate; only an occasional carefully phrased postcard message reaches their families. But some have been released, and in its current issue the British Medical Journal published a memorable report on how such prisoners fare...
Alberto Dodero laid a course toward the big time when as a young man he moved from Montevideo to Buenos Aires and added to the family business a freighter bought on credit. He quickly gathered headway. At the end of World War I, with a credit of $10 million, he got 148 surplus U.S. ships, resold them at a handsome profit. Then he bought into the Mihanovich Line in his adopted Argentina, owned it 15 years later. By World War II, Dodero had over 300 ships, plus a choice assortment of real estate and other properties...
...more ships, granted him many another fat favor. It went all-out on a long-ignored demand for indemnity on a Dodero ship that had been sunk by the Nazis in 1940. In addition to the 2,000,000 pesos that Dodero had asked, it gave him 15 million pesos more to cover what he would have made with the ship if it had not been sunk...
...regime's nationalization program, which had already absorbed railroads, telephones and other utilities, took over Dodero's ships, his shares in an airline, and all the rest of his Argentine business property except five apartment houses. The terms were those of a forced sale: 26 million pesos (less than $3,000,000) for the controlling stock...
...November the Sun sprang his series. It named the racketeers who controlled the piers, stole an estimated $50 million a year from cargoes, exacted a tribute for every pound loaded or unloaded, and held office in, or operated through, locals of the A.F.L. International Longshoremen's Association. Union Boss Joseph P. Ryan let off a windy counterattack that accused Johnson of being taken in by Communist-line reformers. The Sun printed Ryan's bleats along with Johnson's point-by-point rebuttal and went right on blasting...