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...business, Eric Johnston, 46-year-old head of the Chamber of Commerce is already a marked man. He has turned what is normally a stodgy job into an exciting one. He has shown himself able to ingratiate himself with both labor and the Administration, longtime foes of the Chamber. He has just returned from a tour of South America (TIME, March 15), on which he endorsed the Hull reciprocal trade agreements and succeeded in selling many a South American the idea that free enterprise may be as important in Good Neighbor policy as big Government handouts...
Last week shrewd, smooth-spoken Mr. Johnston added to his stature. In an address in Manhattan entitled "The Road to Realism," Johnston summed up the fears and hopes of many a U.S. executive. Johnston's fear is that present emphasis on Federal power will lead the U.S. to totalitarianism. Said he: "Super-statism is not a bogey of the businessmen's imagination. It is the monster which has catapulted the world into war. . . . Unless we recognize it as a real danger, we shall lose by default...
Five minutes later John Gudgel and Dick Johnston were sipping martinis hurriedly in a desperate effort to forget what they had just seen: no bluejacket batting out code to the fleet, but rather, a welder and his torch sealing the seams in two steel plates...
Sound trucks that accompany the British Eighth Army let the home folks overhear the talk and work of the British Tommy. Sound trucks have gone with the fighting tanks, sometimes, by accident, preceded them. One BBCman (Denis Johnston, Irish playwright) found himself alone facing an enemy column. BBC listeners later got a laugh from his bewilderment: "I can't see. ... I can't tell. . . . Good God! They're the enemy! . . . Oh. It's all right. They've got their hands up. They're Italians...
Second big Johnston point: U.S. business stands 100% behind the Administration's Good Neighbor policy. But this cannot be achieved through grandiose Government-sponsored plans to control trade. The Good Neighbor policy's success depends on private business initiative. Said Johnston in Buenos Aires: "We came down primarily to lay a foundation for postwar development through private enterprise. We do not want any South American...