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Ever since the war's outbreak British idealists have talked and written about the kind of warproof Europe they want to see set up after the war. Generally, their ideas have boiled down to a European federation calculated to wipe out fierce commercial rivalries, customs frontiers, expensive armies. Across the Channel in France, political thought is rarely so idealistic. Many Frenchmen think of after-the-war in terms of territorial gains, of a Germany split up into 20 or more harmless States as it was a century ago, of an enlarged France holding both sides of the Rhine...
Correspondents were told Lord Halifax's British Blue Book was a poor thing, hastily published immediately after the outbreak of hostilities, not a scholarly work at all. The Foreign Office spokesman carefully emphasized that the White Book, much longer, and published three months after the outbreak of the war, is a scholarly, accurate German work...
...yards, up 80,000,000. This piling up of inventories is a gamble that retail sales will boom before production declines under inventory pressure. But there was an additional reason for textile activity: England, needing burlap for sandbags, has virtually cleaned out the Calcutta market since the outbreak of war with orders so far totaling 1,000,000,000 bags. The price of raw material for burlap is up from ?18 ($84.24) a ton in August to ?88 (about $344.96). Supplies for the U. S. are limited, not likely to last long. Textile companies are selling low-grade, rough cottons...
That the chancelleries of Europe had these facts straight, and that the outbreak of Finnish-Russian war had done much to bring about the ultimate choosing-up of sides in World War II, was evident in many places last week...
...Second, after the outbreak of hostilities Germany addressed France and England with peace proposals while the Soviet Union openly supported Germany's peace proposals because it believed and continues to believe that the earliest termination of the war would fundamentally alleviate the position of all countries and nations...