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...over counting houses and office buildings where Continental Europe's No. 1 commercial nation. The Netherlands, had transacted the rich business of her vast empire. But bare as a tooth socket was many a captured vault and till. For months their contents had been quietly moving to safer places and in the few hours while her Army threw itself before the Nazi drive. Holland's great commercial machine completed the fastest and biggest business evacuation in world military history...
...most favorable results of the nation-wide CAA experiment has been the safety record. Statistics show that the program has been 1100 percent safer than all private flying last year...
...ever surer sign that Scandinavia was in the middle of a first-class war of nerves was the flight of capital from Sweden. In two days 20,000,000 kroner ($4,760,000) left for safer refuge. To check this loss Premier Per Albin Hansson called the Riksdag into week-end session, pushed through laws forbidding the export of banknotes, checks, drafts, coins, bullion. No one could doubt any longer that Sweden, by helping volunteers to get to Finland, was "actively non-intervening" in the Finnish War more or less as Germany, Italy and Russia "non-intervened" in the Spanish...
World War II has increased the world's previous refugee problems by many times. Out of Germany, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia keep streaming thousands of helpless, penniless Jews and Gentiles seeking safer, happier homes. Refugee committees have been swamped...
Since no one has suggested that we break diplomatic relations with Italy, Germany, or Japan, although they are all as guilty of aggression as Russia, Professor de Haas concludes that the Welles visit may result in a compromise with the Nazis which would leave the world in no safer condition than it is today...