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Perched on a plateau 2,000 ft. above sea level is Canberra (pronounced Can'b'rra), the inconvenient "garden city" capital of Australia, whose statesmen stay away from it as much as they can. The ministries relating to defense are at Melbourne on the seacoast, and the easygoing Cabinet likes to meet there or in Sydney, where it uses the air-conditioned offices of Amalgamated Wireless Co. (The Government offices are not air-conditioned). One morning last week Army Minister Brigadier Geoffrey Austin Street found in Melbourne that there was nothing for it but he must...
...When TIME can report the encouraging fact that U. S. citizens and particularly their statesmen have looked at the problems of national defense without blinking, TIME ought soon to be able to report many more encouraging facts...
...statesmen talked peace at Hyde Park in the autumn of 1936. One was gaunt, dark-eyed Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli. Papal Secretary of State. The other was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Last year Cardinal Pacelli became Pope Pius XII. Last Christmas President Roosevelt, striving to halt World War II, recalled their talk of peace on earth. To the Pope he wrote: "In their hearts men decline to accept for long the law of destruction forced upon them by wielders of brute force. Always they seek . . . to find again the faith without which the welfare of nations and the peace of the world...
...astounded to hear early last week that not one single fighting airplane was even on order as a result of the new emergency defense program. But by week's end thousands of planes-about 4,200-were almost on order. This progress was no thanks to the elected statesmen of the people. They were still trying to make up their minds on rules about profits and taxes and other political jackstraws...
...Ministry in the Louvre Palace last week he found a strange contrast to the days when France was a banking power. Instead of financial kings, industrialists, foreign statesmen and Oriental potentates, his anterooms and the entrance to the Palace were crowded with anxious officials demanding back salary, retired civil servants wanting overdue pensions, and worried captains of industry begging for credit to get their factories going. "People expect miracles," remarked...