In Leningrad, U. S. S. R., nine directors and engineers of the Soviet shipbuilding trust were arrested last week, charged with treason in trying to obstruct the government's shipbuilding program.
In Washington, D.C., on the following day a Senate committee summoned four U. S. shipbuilders to discover whether they had not been conducting propaganda to make the government build more ships than it wished to.
Cynics suggested that Russia and the U. S. might be satisfied by exchanging the higher-ups in their ship industries.
Affairs in Washington came to...
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