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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Saint Exupery beside being a first class writer plays the violin well, draws well, plays chess well, is very gifted. Incidentally, I never heard him use his title, probably "no Count, he." I do not think he would consider himself as France's No. i airman, holds no record that I know of, probably "no France's No. i airman, he." However, he is possibly the best known French pilot outside air circles and this due. to his writings, he also is a helluva nice fellow...
...third terms for their Presidents is a cliche so long accepted as to be a maxim, although it has never been tested by ballot. It now has a special meaning: a candidate for a second reelection, potential or declared, cannot be a good President in crisis; he may even use the crisis to forward his ambitions...
Think of Charlie Ross in your reports. I mean you should use your imagination and put out something in the style of Charlie Ross...
...taxation. The guiding principle, he informed his colleagues, would be to impose all the taxes the country could stand. Normal standards of what was popular no longer counted, said he; furthermore, one of his aims was to curtail civilian demands. "There must be restrictions directed against wasteful or unnecessary use of resources, restrictions which limit consumption of a long list of articles, the strictest economy all along the line...
...Minister Vilhelms Munters to do but hustle to Moscow this week with a delegation empowered to sign. This obviously cut two ways: on the one hand Russia has taken efficient measures to exclude the Germans from Estonia and Latvia; on the other hand the Soviet Union has obtained the use of fine, ice-free Estonian and Latvian harbors through which Russian supplies could be routed to Germany after Leningrad freezes up late this month...