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...recently I have heard the story which seems to be going the rounds that our Government is paying an exorbitant rental for the land where our World War dead are buried in France. If the rent is not paid promptly, so the story goes, France has threatened to get rid of the bodies by the use of quicklime...
...freight ships, constructed under the Maritime Commission's program for rebuilding the U. S. merchant marine. Seven of the new ships have already been launched. Faced with the loss of its Scandinavian-Baltic trade (American Scantic Line) for the duration of the war, Moore-McCormack might well get rid of all the old ships it can. So might the rest of the U. S. merchant marine. By 1948, 500 of the Maritime Commission's new ships will be off the ways. Within three years 1,300 of the 1,400 ocean vessels flying the U. S. flag will...
...Peacemaker Shaw, asked by London's Daily Worker, Communist organ, whether he favored peace negotiations and an immediate armistice, answered: "I'm in favor of negotiations . . . but a philosopher-or a God-might hold that, as the 1914-1918 war was well worth while because it got rid of the German, Austrian, Turkish and Russian Empires, this one might be worthwhile if it got rid of the British Empire: not a very pleasant process for us. . . . But the sooner the order is given to cease fire and turn up the lights the better...
...Riga. No. 2 on Stalin's Baltic list is Latvia and this week its entire General Staff went down to the railway station in Riga to greet a Soviet Military Delegation which arrived to see about establishing Red Navy, Army and Air Force bases. Although these mean the rid of Latvian independence, the General Staff made the best of a sad occasion, banqueted their Soviet guests...
Last week, before the Government's Committee for Reciprocity Information at Washington, Arthur Besse made an earnest plea: 1) terminate all Mr. Hull's reciprocal trade agreements (which would get rid of reduced tariffs on wool goods) for the duration of the war; 2) consider upping tariffs to prevent flooding of the U. S. market by foreign producers. Said he: "When the war is over we will be powerless to prevent a flood of foreign fabrics...