National Affairs: Praise OLLA

President Roosevelt last week set up the Office of Lend-Lease Administration, with snow-crested Edward R. Stettinius. Washington pun haters, noting the bureau's initials, grimly girded themselves. But after their bout with the initials of the Office of Facts & Figures (OFF), the town's punsters seemed exhausted, could offer little but "Praise OLLA."

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