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...Nationalists and the Republicans. Even in the first winter of the war they heard how Franco's men abhorred their Italian allies and rejoiced when the Spanish Reds massacred them. When the war ended, Franco bargained well for leftover Axis materials. "Both Italy and Germany were charging merely second-hand prices for the [military] materiel, but the real payment was to be made on a politico-military basis in the future: Spain was to aid the Axis in the war to come...
Australia. Baldwin's only second-hand reports concerned Australia, which he did not visit. Wrote he: "Australia's internal problems have rendered MacArthur's position . . . difficult. . . . The importance of his coming and of the arrival of American troops to Australian politics is obvious. Prime Minister John Curtin's political position naturally was strengthened by these events. . . . The Australian War Cabinet naturally continued to reserve to itself a considerable share of authority. Military decisions in Australia and the adjacent area (i.e., New Guinea) have not always been General MacArthur...
...With more Americans working than ever before, second-hand alarm clocks are a national best seller. (One New Orleans shop sold 300 a day until its stock was cleaned...
...Ickes tried again, again had his face pushed in. But with the transfer of some 300 tankers to war service, and the East Coast sub sinkings, oil reserves on the Eastern Seaboard dropped 2,000,000 bbl. a week. Mr. Ickes started digging up and relocating old lines, using second-hand pipe to improve a vastly inadequate system. In May he went to WPB with another plea for steel allocations. There were conferences. WPBoss Donald Nelson emerged from lunch at the White House to declare with finality: "The pipeline is out unless you want to give up planes and tanks...
Used-car sales are just as bad-maybe worse. Prices are 25% to 33% below last year. At a New York City Police Department "lost-strayed-or-stolen" auction, 1,500 bidders bypassed 155 second-hand cars (except as junk), bid up to $37 for second-hand bicycles. In the Carolinas, new and used-car sales were off 50%; in Florida, many a disgusted dealer got ready to quit; in Maine, there were more sellers than buyers. Even in the gasoline-rich West and Midwest, rumors of rationing slowed sales down...