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Significance. The agenda for Eden's discussions may include postwar rehabilitation and food distribution, recognition of governments, European refugees, Anglo-American relations with Russia, closer cooperation among the United Nations. Said Anthony Eden: nothing is excluded...
...Arthur Chester Millspaugh, political scientist and financial adviser, is making his second effort to reform Persia's national economy (he had the same job 21 years ago). Oil is Persia's principal resource, but Persians see little of it. Persia's oilfields are principally controlled by Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. The people depend on the land, and most of the under-cultivated, ill-used land belongs to the same absentee moguls who control the national finances...
...Admiral Richard Gadow-the first German to disclose, in 1935, that the Nazis were building submarines-wrote recently in Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung: "A successful Allied invasion of Norway would be a catastrophe for Germany. Norway in the hands of the enemy would mean great economy in the protection of Anglo-Saxon convoys . . . and would constitute a dangerous threat to the Finnish northern flank"-to say nothing, eventually, of the German northern flank...
...problem can be secured not merely through frontier rectifications; Russia must be given security from aggression by an establishment of that collective security for which Maxim Litvinov waged a fruitless battle throughout the Thirties. In 1919, Clemenceau and Foch gave up their demands to German territory for an Anglo-American promise to institute an effective system for main-taining peace; that promise was not kept. At the end of World War II, Russia may be expected to cooperate with the United Nations only if guaranteed a peace system that will substitute the olive-branch, for the mailed fist and replace...
...Whole Heart by Helen Howe may sound like a mild fit of coughing but is, in fact, a remarkable first novel. Dedicated to the proposition that half a conscience is worse than none at all, it is an excruciating story of "the typical Anglo-Saxon" and of four women who loved him-a story told entirely in terms of their letters and diaries. It is by turns howlingly funny, shrewd, sinister, ferocious, painful with the pain of a fluctuating personality...