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...other Washington bigwigs speak for all-out aid to Britain, against the isolationism for which the Corn Belt has been famous. They were greeted with thoughtful, friendly applause. Said one farmer: "I'm in the cattle business, and I'm doing all right. But if importing Argentine beef is going to help our defense situation, let Argentine beef...
...Easing the high tariff on Argentine beef...
...Mississippi. Since existing rail lines are long and expensive, connect the Plata nations to Buenos Aires but not to each other, it is the only transportation system linking all the Plata basin. But the Plata bloc has used this waterway almost exclusively to carry trade abroad. Canned and frozen beef from Uruguay's frigorificos (packing plants) and saladeros (salting plants), as well as most of Uruguay's wool, go to Europe. Argentina sends its flaxseed (84% of the world trade total), its wheat (23%), its corn (71%), its beef (50%) abroad. Bolivia's copper, lead and silver...
...mind that this country must flood Britain with the aid which the defenders need so badly. Guns and planes and shells and ships must flow in a ceaseless stream from this hemisphere to the other. An arsenal we must be, not because we love the land of roast beef and brown ale, but because we fear for the land of hamburgers and Coca Cola. Up to this point we see eye to eye with Mr. Conant as to what is to be done. But here we part company, radically, and our parting reveals the difference in theory that underlies...
...Uruguay $7,500,000, part to finish a power dam on the Negro River started five years ago with German capital, the rest to improve the beef and wool indus tries. Since Great Britain has already bought all Uruguay's 1941 wool clip, the Uruguayan loan is indirect aid to Britain...