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Four months after the Japanese surrender, China grappled with the problem of the surrendered Japanese who still cluttered China's landscape. Of 3,000,000 Japanese soldiers and civilians in China on V-J day, the vast majority were still waiting for shipment home...
...abler members were instruments either of Britain or Russia, both of which continued to encourage the corruption of Iranian life. Both, too, disrupted Iran's economic life throughout the war. The British (with the Americans) monopolized the country's inadequate transportation system for Lend-Lease shipments to Russia; the Russians prevented shipment of grain from food-rich Azerbaijan to Teheran and other deficient areas. In the capital there were food riots that lasted three days. Inflation soared. By last year the cost of living had risen tenfold, preparing the way for Communist agitation...
Meanwhile the U.S. would do its best to clamp down on the black markets, straighten the currency muddle, extend credit and speed the shipment of goods to the islands. Last week the Administration also made up its mind on trade policy; it would ask Congress to give the Philip pines free trade with the U.S. for eight years and tariffs which would rise gently for 25 years after that...
...borrow from the U.S., use the money to buy surpluses. So far, no nation has shown any signs of wanting such loans. Thanks to the inept Surplus Property Act of 1944, they are well aware that the U.S. is in no position to haggle. The act bans the shipment of goods back to the U.S. for resale, lest such goods compete with private industry. So the goods must stay where they are. Ironically, the U.S. cannot even ship home its steamrollers & bulldozers (see cut) rusting away on the British protectorate of Guadalcanal...
...hero of Confidential Agent is far from a stock heroic figure. He is middleaged, greying, easily winded and persistent rather than brave. A Spanish Loyalist soldier whose wife and child have been killed, he is sent on a confidential mission to England in 1937 to keep a shipment of coal out of the Nationalists' hands. He is beaten up, shot at and framed for murder. He is chased up dusty stairways and down drab, foggy alleys. He wins out mostly-through stubbornness and luck...