CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Samples

At Prague last week the Czechoslovak Government clarioned that after Nov. 18 (the deadline for applying sanctions; no more Czechoslovak coal will be shipped to Italy. Rushing off 300 carloads to Italy last week, Czechoslovaks eased their pricking consciences by officially designating each of the 300 carloads of coal as a "sample." Why they should send samples to a nation to which they do not expect to sell more coal was a question Czechoslovaks answered with bland shrugs.

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