AUSTRALIA: Tame Tasmanian

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Racing toward the U. S. this week on the Italian liner Rex was honest, naïve, likable, tousle-haired Joseph Aloysius Lyons, Premier of the Commonwealth of Australia, soon to swap grins in the White House with Franklin Delano Roosevelt and indulge in genial economic horse trading.

Few years ago spendthrift Daughter Australia was Mother Britain's second best customer, and the U. S.'s best customer for motor cars and trucks. Today the exuberant young Commonwealth, much sobered down and striving mightily to pay her debts, is Britain's third...

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