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...which the Russians took from them in 1940, the Finns, by the Russians' withdrawal, will now have virtually all their pre-1940 territory back again. Stalin evidently hoped that the Finns, anxious to retain the friendship of the U.S. and embarrassed by their alliance with Hitler, might now pile arms and pull out of the campaign...
Most important and immediate was Priorities, where nearly every crime against common sense had been committed. The long months of priority mismanagement had resulted in the U.S. turning up a magnificent pile of shortages. Here the Rosenman-Roosevelt plan displayed great cunning and foresight. Donald Nelson was also given the Priorities job, which is central to everything in defense...
...further embarrassed. Among 83 parcels delivered by Japanese steamer and labeled "For Personal Use" of the envoy, authorities seized a 60-page book listing 3,000 persons to shadow as "unfriendly to Germany." Next day the distressed Ambassador was seen in his garden, gazing pensively into a large pile of burning documents...
Rubber Reserve Co., whose efforts to create a rubber stock pile had gathered only 218,000 long tons (less than six months' normal consumption) by the end of July, inched a little closer to its goal last week. At its behest the British-Dutch rubber cartel upped production quotas to 120% of theoretical capacity, or to 1,866,000 tons a year...
Here I am away out West, faithfully shelling out 15? each week to keep up with TIME while my regular subscription copies pile up in Kansas City. Yet, I do not ask TIME to change its address die. My purpose herein follows the same theme of my last two letters to you within 15 months...