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...complacent husband, Prince Otto, had enthralled Rome with their lavish entertainments. Otto had an unlimited allowance from the German Embassy and instructions to let the Princess go her calculated way. Ann Mari's grande affaire with Ciano's Chief of Cabinet, ardent Filippo Anfuso, had more than repaid Berlin...
...seen-that-before picture. The ex-Vice-Presidential author of the 1924 Dawes Plan for reparations heard the ex-Presidential World War I debt expert sound some alarms on World War II debts. Hoover doubted that "much, if anything, of our 40 billions of Lend-Lease" would be repaid, but suggested waiting until "five years hence, when the shape of the world is more clear," instead of canceling the debts now. Meantime, he added, "we should demand that all the weapons we have sent on Lend-Lease should be destroyed...
When France's gaunt General de Gaulle came to Washington last week it was exactly one year since he had marched into liberated Paris behind the might of U.S. arms. It was little more than 13 months since his last visit to the U.S., when he had repaid Franklin Roosevelt's cool reserve with a stiff hauteur...
...million which RFC offered to lend Kaiser for additions to Fontana); 2) a 25-year, no-interest second mortgage of $34.5 million; 3) a $10.3 million note to be secured by 103,180 shares of Kaiser Co. Inc. 4% first preferred stock. In short, RFC wanted its original loan repaid in full, 'was not prepared to subsidize Kaiser's well-publicized campaign to deliver cheap steel to West Coast industries...
This authoritative and readable collection of twelve essays is addressed to Americans who think that the U.S. cultural debt to Asia could be repaid with the return of a few porcelains, screens, Chi nese backscratchers and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Ranging from agriculture to art, music to philosophy, the essays will be especially helpful to Americans who still regard Asiatics as exotically mysterious beings with whom they have virtually nothing in common...