Word: post-war
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Similarities. The two dictators have a common and outspoken fear of the Anglo-Russian pact and the increasing solidarity of the United Nations with Russia. They believe that Germany is their bulwark against Communist doctrine and Russian post-war political influence. Both are increasingly dependent on Germany for trade. From the U.S. Portugal has received slimmer & slimmer shipments of oil, tobacco, fertilizer and foodstuff. Spain has been getting shiploads of wheat for her sullen peons and rickety children...
...more, the Treasury rebates to him. Nobody loses, but men going from high-paying jobs into the armed services, or forced out of work by priorities and the like can get out of the nightmare squirrel cage of paying high taxes for nearly a year more. And come a post-war depression, workers with deflated pay envelopes would benefit...
Truk is the Japs' Pearl Harbor. Here, by post-War I donation, they have one of the finest harbors in the Pacific. Here, ringed by protecting reefs, they have one of the hardest-to-get-at naval and air bases in the world...
First Principles. Both Winston Churchill and Cordell Hull, before Japan entered World War II, promised post-war reconsideration of the Western world's claims on China. But the U.S. and Britain, intent on fighting the Axis, have neglected the psychological front among a billion Asiatics. China is fighting as a free nation, but India, demanding freedom, is being kept from it by wartime realities and political confusion (see col. 3). Chinese Scholar Lin Yutang last week gave one appraisal of the situation: "If it appears to the Asiatics and the South Americans and the people of the countries subjected...
...strenuously as is possible in wartime. Some of them have come around to approve the principle, but they insist that the application of it be left in their hands, much as were the old NIRA codes. They are willing to sacrifice so long as it doesn't hurt their post-war position in their own industry...