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...fixed price (probably 4.85 to the dollar); the Bank of Mexico will stand ready to buy them back, thus pegging the peso at its present level. About $30,000,000 is reportedly involved in this deal. From this money the Mexican Government would expect to make a token payment to U.S. oil companies...
...half through the Treasury, half through the Export-Import Bank. Export-Import's $30,000,000 will be used for building roads, developing Mexican agriculture, etc. Treasury's $30,000,000 will be used to stabilize the peso. From this fund will come a $9,000,000 "token payment" to U.S. oil companies while negotiations for a final settlement are in progress...
...word is still 'defense.' In the mouth of a fainthearted army officer-there are many-it sounds natural enough; only when you hear it from men whose actions stamp them as dedicated to all-out effort does it strike you as odd and sad that this token word has taken root everywhere. . . . This arsenal of democracy, this strongest of all industrial nations, continues to view with shuddering abhorrence the world of conflict in which it finds itself. Confronted with the bloodlust of Hitler's Germany, it still wishes it could continue to dream about colored bathtubs. . . ." Stultified...
...better known as Reza Shah Pahlavi. Ever since his Government signed a trade agreement with Adolf Hitler's in April last year Germans have poured into Iran. Last week Britain and Russia turned heat on the Shah to start them pouring out. By week's end a token trickle of some 60 out of an estimated 4,000 to 5,000 had dribbled over the Turkish border...
...tell your President, your industrialists, your business men, your newspaper men, that Argentina wants to be a self-made nation. And tell them that we shall welcome with open arms every expression of North American culture, so long as these are expressions of North America herself. ... By the same token, we shall send to your country our own national image, shaped in the ingenuous molds of our young, but nonetheless unmistakably Argentine, culture...