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...countries involved. If it should be deemed desirable to include this entire area within in a single customs union, no serious problems would arise." He winds up with the following significant statement: "We may conclude, then, that the area which is complementary to the United States from the economic standpoint is, in its geographic position, exactly the area which of necessity must be included in any defense program which pretends to be at all adequate...
Last week, before the convention opened, they met by chance on the boardwalk. They went to Mr. Hillman's hotel room, where they talked for over an hour. When they came out they were laughing. Peacemakers took hope. Later Lewis gruffed to newsmen: "From the social standpoint it was enjoyed by each of us." Neither would admit he had budged an inch from his position, but both declared loudly there would be no breakup...
Isolation support of candidate Willkie was without reason. Professor Taylor maintained, because "from the isolationist standpoint, the real sinner was surely Mr. Willkie." It is the duty of the opposition, he explained, to open up the fundamental issues, yet Mr. Willkie ignored the issue that was so plain to isolationists...
There are still no seminaries in Mexico (priests are trained over the border in Texas and New Mexico). Church buildings still legally belong to the State, and only one priest is allowed to officiate for every 50,000 parishioners. Worst of all from Catholicism's standpoint. Catholic moppets are forbidden religious education, must be sent to socialist-slanted State schools...
...Japan did not know whether it was in on this latest war or not. Its attitude toward Greece would be "considered from a practical political standpoint, not in the strict literal sense." Since Albania, an Italian possession, was "attacked" by Greece, Japan dishonored her five-week-old mutual-defense pact with the Axis by not going to Italy...