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Business experience popped fitfully in & out of this political career: at 23 he was secretary of the Railway Committee of Central South African Railways; at 53 he was briefly Governor of the National Bank of Scotland. An improvising administrator, he works by fits & starts, grows inert and sluggish unless...
Mussolini had gained: 1) demilitarization of a 30-mile strip along the Franco-Italian frontier; 2) demilitarization of a strip 125 miles wide along the Libyan frontier; 3) demilitarization of the French Somaliland coast and full rights to the harbor of Djibouti and the Djibouti-Addis Ababa Railway; 4) demilitarization for the duration of the war of the French naval bases at Toulon, Bizerte, Oran and Ajaccio. Regarding the surrender and demobilization of the French Army, the Italian Armistice conformed to the German. No mention was made of Nice, Savoy or Corsica, for which Italians have long clamored. So humiliating...
Materiel. Not a single Army rifle had been made in Canada up to this week. Neither had the Dominion made a single tank, although one of the Canadian Pacific Railway shops was said to be working on "tank hulls." (The machinery would have to come from somewhere else...
...Germans who have been confined behind guarded frontiers since 1933 it was reported that mileage tickets are to be issued shortly by the German Railway so that without waiting for fare adjustments following the war they can gratify long-harbored desires to visit Paris and the Riviera. Chief object of interest, however, was the Maginot Line, now in occupied territory, and boulevard gossip in Berlin indicated that it would soon become the world's most elaborate and expensive tourist attraction...
...Foreign Office soon handed gentle M. Arsene-Henry demands that French authorities: 1) give the Japanese a detailed inventory of gasoline, trucks, railway stocks in French Indo-China; 2) allow Japanese customs officers periodically to examine these stocks; 3) let Japanese troops supervise transportation across the border into China...