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...your issue of Nov. 9 you aim a number of shafts at the Treasury which are well deserved. It is correct, and it is important to realize, that borrowing from the banks is inflationary, that if we are to avoid inflation or serious trouble with price control we must obtain the funds for financing the war either from the proceeds of taxation or from the sale of bonds to income receivers who reduce their consumption to the extent of their bond purchases...
...division of the U. S. Bureau, the project is under the direction of Wassily W. Leontief, associate professor of Economics, and was established here at his request to avoid the confusion of a wartime Washington...
...While war is the last means to which a nation should resort, circumstances arise when it is impossible to avoid it. At times it is the positive duty of a nation to wage war in the defense of life and right. Our country now finds itself in such circumstances...
...pursuing troops swept into Tobruk, where Imperial troops in 1941 held Rommel off for eight months. Montgomery pushed on. A German news agency reported that Rommel in shirt and shorts, minus his coat and his favorite grey-&-white striped scarf, fled from a field headquarters just in time to avoid capture by British tanks. Arriving at a new base, he cracked (according to Nazi propaganda): "Like Napoleon I lost my equipment but there won't be any Waterloo...
...grimly sunning themselves on the French Riviera, Spain and Portugal faced difficult moments. Last week they were all diplomatic smiles toward the U.S. Replying to President Roosevelt's assurances that the United Nations had no designs on their territory, Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco said he would avoid "anything which might disturb our relations in any of their aspects," and Portugal's President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona spoke of "unalterable and confident friendship...