THE CHANCELLERIES: Les Miserables

The discomfort of two nations last week made news.

Who's Winning Now? In spite of another mistaken U.S. bombing of a Swiss town, the Swiss signed a new trade agreement with a U.S.-British mission headed by Washington's wispy Lauchlin Currie and London's Dingle Foot. The Swiss, who three years ago were squeezed by the top-dog Nazis, now had to bend their neutrality to a squeeze from the opposite side: they agreed 1) to cut off all except token shipments of important civilian goods between Germany and northern Italy; 2) to switch all...

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