ECONOMIC FRONT: Bigger Barters

Germany's No. 1 economic war problem is to persuade, by hook or crook, her neighbors to produce and deliver to her much-needed war materials. The Allies' big job is to persuade them not to. Last week's action on the trade front went mostly in favor of the Nazis:

— Last August, just before the Nazi-Communist non-aggression treaty was signed, the Soviet Union and Germany concluded a barter trade treaty. Germany gave $80,000,000 worth of credits to be applied to manufactured goods to the Soviet Union; Russia reciprocated with the promise of $72,000,000...

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