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...meanwhile the cloud over U. S. sugar is growing darker. Cuba has depended on the European market to get rid of 33% of her crop; Britain's sugar islands have depended on Europe even more. In Asia, the huge Javanese crop is facing a smaller market in India (which can now turn exporter), is backing up close to the Philippines and Hawaii. Thus, if the U. S. assumes the job of taking care of distress commodities inside the Monroe Doctrine area (TIME, July 1), sugar will stand near the head of the line...
...more coolheaded, if no less decisive. In Colombia, the Government-owned airline, Avianca (formed by the merger of Colombia's Saco Co. and the German Scadta System), fired all its German employes, arranged with Pan American Airways for U. S. pilots and instructors. Ecuador took steps to get rid of the Italian military mission which has been training her Army for 15 years. Argentina hastily sent her fleet of efficient river gunboats to patrol the river frontiers of Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil, rushed frontier guards into Entre Rios Province, where a Nazi plot was reported brewing. The entire Police...
...Pittsburgh, the other in Wisconsin and the prairie States. Six properties located on the West Coast, in the Rockies, Oklahoma and Kentucky would be sold by trading their common stock to Standard's own bondholders. These bondholders would thus own equities close to the meterboxes, while Standard would rid itself of perhaps $35,000,000 in debt. If allowed to keep Pittsburgh and the Midwest, the Standard system would have a net property investment of around $470,000,000. Smaller, it would nevertheless be stronger, better able to grow up with its two chosen regions...
...Rid at last,"said the resolution, "of the delusion of security through neutrality, we recognize that the German National Socialist system is our enemy ... we face the fact that we are now in a state of opposition to the German National Socialist system, which . . . seeks to destroy our system of society and government...
...tutor of his children. But the most significant influence on his policies was wielded by General Van Overstraeten, the brilliant, energetic, overbearing military tutor who became his chief military adviser. General Van Overstraeten did his best to dislodge pro-Ally War Minister General Henri Denis, succeeded only in getting rid of Chief-of-Staff General E. Van den Bergen. Younger Belgian Army officers called General Van Overstraeten "vice...