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Syphilis is a conquered disease in one sense only-that the chemical means to obliterate it are on hand. Its real conquest is a problem of lining up the patients. Standard syphilis-destroyer is arsphenamine, the drug salvarsan ("606") which Germany's Paul Ehrlich concocted 30 years ago. Mercury and bismuth compounds are also useful. But all these drugs must be injected regularly over a long period (18 months to two years) and many patients heartily dislike injections and monotonous visits to the doctor. When their gross symptoms disappear, they often abandon treatment forthwith, still harboring the pale lurking...
...been negotiated. In Havana, Ambassador to Cuba George Messersmith delivered a final warning that no credence could be placed in protestations by "aggressive European countries" that they had no interest in the Western Hemisphere: "With its great natural wealth (it) is considered by these States as their ultimate conquest. . . . They are prepared to sow discord between the States as well as within the States by raising every internal question on which there may be differences." But, said the Ambassador, the American States, with the example of Europe before them, would not be misled "either by fair promises or by threats...
From all evidence available it appears that the United States can be defeated and conquered without military conquest of continental United States. Without a navy controlling the sea areas against an enemy, an effective blockade against our foreign commerce can be established and maintained at points thousands of miles from our coast, and well beyond aircraft range...
...credits we give them and then double-cross us. South Americans are not followers of abstract ideals-they are realists. Therefore, any lasting solidarity between North and South America is an impractical dream-unless we take a leaf from Hitler's book and go in for conquest or domination. The only sensible and practical course that remains for us as a nation is to stop throwing mud and epithets and try to get along with Germany, at least until we have actually built up our defenses to the point where we can back up our words with something more...
According to a recent issue of your magazine [TIME, June 17], the whole of Europe is imminently threatened with famine. If this is so, and Great Britain can hold out for a few months, it is quite possible that Hitler's whole conquest would collapse due to starvation and its attendant disorders...