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Faced with knottier problems in war-torn 1940, Pinedo last month announced that his exchange control had temporarily suspended all applications for outgoing U. S. dollar-exchange permits-in effect a blockade of all U. S. products coming into Argentina. Later it was blandly announced that this was not a blockade, but a sort of bookkeeper's holiday to allow experts to study "the dollar situation." For Argentina, the dollar situation was serious. Her exports to Belgium, The Netherlands and France have stopped, and her sales to Great Britain no longer produce any foreign exchange, because sterling exports...
...when Willkie reached Los Angeles, the city went crazy. Torn paper & ticker tape showered down, a steady, deep-toned roar followed his car for many miles, and at the City Hall the swirling crowd jammed around him so frenziedly that he never got within 50 feet of Acting Mayor Robert Burns and the dignitaries...
...women were torn apart by oxen, broken on cart wheels, cut in pieces by hand saws, steamed to death in hot springs. Rich and poor, city folk and farmers-at least 40,000 of the Japanese Christian community of 200,000 souls-"suffered death calmly for the sake of their Christian faith, evincing no resentment against anyone but, on the contrary, offering prayers for the sake of their persecutors." Such was the great Japanese martyrdom which took place 300 years ago when the Christian community founded there by St. Francis Xavier was suppressed. Christianity has not had a single martyr...
...Louis Stevenson wrote: "For 14 years I have not had a day's real health; I have wakened sick and gone to bed weary; and I have done my work unflinchingly. I have written in bed, and written out of it, written in hemorrhages, written in sickness, written torn by coughing, written when my head swam for weakness. . . ." Yet always his work grew better, for mental activity and creative power often increase with the disease. Stevenson's travels through Provence, U. S. mountains, the South Seas to his Samoan grave suggest not only a search for healthful...
More than 50 children and 12 mothers, all refugees from bomb-torn Britain, have already been placed in homes of faculty members through the help of a committee of American Defense, Harvard Group...