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...rule: "The business of civil administration belongs to the French. Our job is merely to help them cope with an emergency." He and his men, American and British, have worked on that principle ever since. Within two or three days, most of the essential services were at least in partial operation. Civil Affairs men had even helped to reopen a Cherbourg cinema, revive a local newspaper...
...currency became scarce, other nations might, with the consent of the Fund, ration the scarce currency. This means that if the U.S. insists on selling more than it buys (making dollars hard for others to get), other nations, instead of having to give up their gold, can put a partial embargo against U.S. imports. This would leave the U.S. free to choose its course but would put a penalty on abuse of that freedom...
...Foreign Minister, Menemencioglu did not always endear himself to opposing diplomats. He knew how to use his partial deafness and his lung ailment during diplomatic conversations, failing to hear what did not suit him, throwing tantrums in the midst of serious conversations, stalking away to "recuperate...
Fortunately, thinks Maier, German frustration is likely to lead to its own partial cure. As bombing and invasion intensify the German people's frustration and reduce their capacity for external aggression, Maier predicts that they will turn their pent-up fury on their own leaders, kill Hitler and other conspicuous Nazis. If they do not thus take matters into their own hands, he believes the solution of the German problem may be indefinitely prolonged. For he fears that war-guilt trials by the United Nations would only heighten the frustrated furor Teutonicus, while failure to punish the Nazi leaders...
Martinez pooh-poohed. Said he of the school strikes: "No children like going to school." But the military, impressed by the civilian stir, made as if to climb on the bandwagon. Martinez, impressed in turn, granted a partial amnesty. After 44 death sentences and many quiet executions, Salvadorians were not appeased...