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Curtain Up. In Leningrad, the Russian fur trust held its first public postwar auction. The Russians, who frown on large foreign embassy staffs and restrict the number of U.S. newsmen to eight, consider fur traders birds of a different capitalistic feather. Among about 100 foreign fur brokers invited were 40 Americans. The guests bought $7,000,000 worth of sables, ermine and muskrat and bid up Siberian Bargusinsky sable to a postwar high of $550 a skin...
...which now allows only 23% of natural rubber to be used in tires, is relaxing its wartime restrictions far too slowly for Malaya. In the next 60 days they will be eased again. But the U.S. intends to keep enough controls so that at least 250,000 tons of synthetic rubber will be used annually, the minimum to keep the synthetic industry going. All this is a far cry from 1925, when Britain's "Stevenson plan" to restrict rubber production ran up prices to more than $1 a lb. Recalling those days, a Malayan planter last week wrote...
Most important, to U.S. companies was the old charge that Farben had weakened the U.S. by cartel agreements with Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey to restrict synthetic rubber development, with Aluminum Co. of America and Dow Chemical to restrict magnesium production, with a Du Pont subsidiary to prevent export of tetrazene (an explosive) to Britain...
...specifically, the U.S.'s intention to control what kind of goods the notoriously inefficient Greek Government ought to buy with the U.S. loan. Premier Demetrios Maximos and Foreign Minister Constantin Tsaldaris, in an interview with the New York Times, pointedly expressed their hope that the U.S. would restrict itself to an "advisory" role. In the past, the Government had persistently ignored any such advice offered by Britain, had imported picture magazines, chocolate, cosmetics and combs (now there are enough combs in the country to keep generations of Greek heads perfectly coiffed...
...American military authorized the minority groups to have radio services. . . . The response was gratifying. Letters requesting more information poured in from over the country. It should have surprised no one, therefore, that last fall pressures began to restrict Protestant radio privileges. These behind-the-scenes forces in Italy are just as hard to put a finger on as are those barring Negroes from some American restaurants, but they are just as certain and effective...