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...kept out by a 4? tariff; since Chilean copper is priced in U. S. ports at 10? a pound, it cannot compete with domestic when domestic is less than 14?. First to plump for tariff reduction in the present emergency was one of the trade's stanchest Willkiemen, blond, conservative Fabricator C. Donald Dallas of Revere Copper and Brass, Inc. On the very September day that Wendell Willkie spoke against low copper prices in Anaconda's Butte, Fabricator Dallas spoke for a 12? ceiling in order to head off an inflationary spiral. He advised dropping the tariff altogether...
Chapter 4: Swiss Tryst. Hanging around in Switzerland, meanwhile, waiting to greet the Tool of the Plot, was a 42-year-old man, fatter now than he was in the days when he was one of Adolf Hitler's stanchest standbys, a man so severely wounded in 1914-18 that he must still lead an ascetic life-Dr. Otto Strasser, head of the Black Front, sworn to demolish Hitler. He had obviously planned the bombing...
...yore, obviously would have liked to oblige his British friends. Plagued with the vision of a possible bloody revolution in India should the British be forced to leave (and there is nothing he abhors more than blood), the Mahatma has of late become one of Britain's stanchest friends. But he was on a spot, for if he came out flatly for war support, his smart Leftist opponents would seize the opportunity of a lifetime and probably dethrone him as the throneless leader of India's millions...
...particularly sad was the thought of his sheep fighting each other: 37,900,000 German Catholics (21,000,000 of 67,000,000 pre-Hitler Germans, plus 6,100,000 Austrian souls, plus 10,800,000 in Czecho-Slovakia) pitted against 23,000,000 devout Poles-just about his stanchest followers anywhere...
...Stanchest supporter of Dutch Premier Dr. Hendrikus Colijn is his soverign, Queen Wilhelmina. Dr. Colijn is a devout Calvinist and a churchman who knows his Bible backwards and forwards. Her Majesty is the apotheosis of Protestantism e conservative, strong-willed Premier believes in balanced budgets, light taxes and a strong currency even in these days of cockeyed national finances; this seems the essence of good sense to the thrifty Queen...