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Gold. "So long as the Soviet Union is surrounded by Capitalist countries, we are likely to maintain a gold basis in relation to our foreign obligations ? as a sop to the nations with whom we are dealing...
President Roosevelt has been cogitating that question. As a result the U. S. Delegation is fitted out with an elaborate sop to be offered at the right moment to Japan, a positively devilish sop in the opinion of Japanese sea dogs who hoped and prayed last week that it will not water down their human torpedo into a damp squib...
...explained in Washington, the sop would be to set up in place of "naval ratios" something called "security equality...
When the bids were opened considerations of price apparently went by the board. On "technical grounds" the Chilean Government decided to buy British. At one clip some $500,000 worth of orders were lost to U. S. firms. As a minuscule sop, the Defense Ministry admitted that Chile probably will buy from the U. S. spare parts for the U. S. planes she already has and intends to buy several U. S. Fairchild airplane cameras. As delighted British salesmen stood drinks all around Chilean officers growled, "This may teach the damned Yankees a lesson...
Ignoring such attacks, President Andrew Conley of the T. U. C. threw maximum weight against the pacifists. Amid hubbub the T. U. C. adopted a resolution under which British laborers may work on whatever munitions orders come the way of their employers. As a sop to pacifism the T. U. C. went on record as still favoring the League of Nations but definitely rejected the program of a general strike to prevent...