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Witness Kuhn then sweated and railed at length, explaining that by refusing to supply Germany with raw materials, Britain and the U. S. forced Hitler to turn to Stalin...
...Government was aware of the report, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Richard Austen Butler replied: "Yes, sir, and my noble friend [Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax] has reason to believe that this report is not without foundation." If the Soviet Union was going to give Germany the wherewithal to buy raw materials abroad, possibly in fee simple for hands off in the East Baltic, the blockading British had something to worry about...
...majority, in one other a strong minority. First move would be for those nine to get a vote of censure of Lord Linlithgow's statement from their respective legislatures ; then resign. After that would begin widespread civil disobedience which might cut off Britain's supply of Indian raw materials. This week, Congress orders went out to the nine strong governments to set machinery moving which might do as much to dislocate Britain's Empire as Herr Hitler's war machine...
People who like their melodrama raw and in big gulps get their fill. Those who would swap a third-rate Hitchcock any night for a first-rate Laughton get an even break...
...Department of Labor, etc. These two, with three assistants, were set up in N.B.E.R.'s financial research workshop-an estate (next door to Arturo Toscanini), in swank Riverdale, N. Y., with tennis court, swimming pool, view of the Hudson. Handed to them was a stack of raw material: statistics on the purchases of 60,000 U. S. families, collected by white-collar WPAsters...