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...frontier in the world is tougher to cross. To refugees, reporters and mail it opens and closes with an exasperating unpredict ability: it is harder to get a letter from Vichy to Paris than from Vichy to Timbuktu. Last week the U. S. saw its first copy of a partial solution: a standardized postcard with blanks to be filled in. Even with blanks it suggested the sufferings of Frenchmen today: " 194 .... in good health tired, .... slightly, gravely, ill, wounded killed prisoner...
Believing that this imminent necessity meant a suspension of free enterprise, in the fullest sense; perhaps, therefore, a partial suspension of democracy, as in World War I, he had repeatedly pledged himself to preserve the labor and social reforms made under the New Deal. For no one knew better than he how quickly, unless someone in authority was determined to maintain them, those reforms could go out the window in a crisis...
Thus were these noncomplementary economics forced into partial yoke for diplomacy's sake. In the offing was a still more difficult problem : How could the U.S. arm Latin America while arming itself and Britain too? With the U. S. steel industry at an all-time production peak and domestic priorities threatening, Latin America's orders stood at the end of the queue. Japan was still importing steel sheets and shapes for its Navy from U. S. mills last week. One possible halfway step: to give Latin-American orders priority over Japanese...
...Rumania, only instructors. ... If there are any troops, they are to guard the Rumanian oil wells against an attack by the British. . . ." Nor were the dispatches of correspondents promoting a fight between Germany and Russia convincing. These made much of "massed troops" in Russia's Northern Bukovina, the partial evacuation of Cer-nauti on the Rumania-Russian border, rumored movements of Soviet tanks and motorized units, the visit to Bessarabia of Russian Commissar of Defense Semion Timoshenko. The principal business of Marshal Timoshenko was to visit his home town and chat with his rickety brother. One extremely indirect report...
...Financially, there was the revolutionary question of colonial-economy Argentina granting credits to banker-economy Great Britain. Blaming the U. S. cash-&-carry war policy for eating up her ready cash, Britain recently asked Argentina to send her foodstuffs on the cuff-reportedly ?43,000,000 worth. As partial payment Britain offered British-held Argentine bonds. But there was also an intriguing possibility: that the British lOUs might be discounted by Argentina in the U. S., turned into U. S. dollars. Argentina would thus get dollars needed to pay for U. S. imports while the U. S.-accepting the lOUs...