ITALY: Pulmotor Squads

Into Rome all last week poured platoons of German economic troubleshooters. First delegation was led by Adolf Hitler's top economist, Minister of Economics Dr. Walther Funk. After him came Trade Expert Dr. Karl Clodius and another brigade of graph-&-slide-rule underlings. When both the Doctors had finished talking to Benito Mussolini and his financial experts the Axis "had reached full agreement on all the most important economic questions connected with the war."

What the agreement was, no one knew, but it was obvious that some changes were going to be made in Italy....

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