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...Though friendly to the Allies, Sweden had continued to send Germany vital raw materials in order to keep her own economy going. Just as the last Departmental red tape had been unwound, and the crackdown readied up to the last paragraph, the shrewd Swedes forestalled it. Sweden announced that henceforth all her territorial ports on the Gulf of Bothnia and the Baltic Sea, west to the Falsterbo Canal, would be closed to foreign trade, meaning Germany. Forthwith the State Department quietly filed its snickersnee away, alongside its warnings to Argentina...
Perturbed, the skittery Congress last week passed a surplus property bill which clipped Mr. Clayton's power (see above). Where he ruled alone, a three-man board will henceforth dispose of the estimated $100 billion in surplus war goods. Previously, Clayton had informed Home Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes that he would not be one of the three; he wanted to quit. His reason: Congress has turned surplus property disposal into a political grab bag. The U.S., he felt, should get what cash it can out of selling surpluses; it should not let them be parceled out among Government agencies...
...response to a petition of the People's Political Council, the Chungking Government last week decreed that henceforth the national budget shall be made public...
...find ways of reducing the enormous state hospital population (73,000), ignored the miracle angle, produced the first report on what insulin can mean in days & months, dollars & cents. It recommended to Governor Dewey that, if only for economy's sake, insulin shock be henceforth made available to all New York State hospital dementia praecox patients...
Marshall Field's Chicago Sun announced last week that it will henceforth print a box score of Colonel McCormick's hates. First box showed that on Sept. 6 the Tribune carried ten "hate" stories against President Roosevelt and the Administration; two against Sidney Hillman, the C.I.O. and P.A.C.; none against Hitler and the Nazis; none against Hirohito and the Japs...