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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Book and record reviews round out this issue, as usual. In general, there is an unfortunate lack of creative writing in this Progressive. A two-paragraph short-short-short story by George May berry only makes an awkward bow in the direction of leftist belles-letters, a field, that the Progressive is well fitted to invade...
Skeptics looked elsewhere and had cause to suspect that perhaps the real reason could be found in The Netherlands Indies, the rich, oil-laden islands in the South Seas. Switzerland does not own colonies. Tokyo correspondents quickly dug up a forgotten paragraph of a recent Arita speech in which the Foreign Minister spoke of "economic cooperation and collaboration" with "South Seas regions." Hugh Byas, the New York Times'?, man in Tokyo, believed that "collaboration" meant "more than cultivation of mutual trade." He speculated on the possibility of a U. S. embargo on oil exports to Japan, and the subsequent...