INTERNATIONAL: Hopeless

Soon after onetime AAAdministrator Chester Charles Davis, on a newshawk’s tip, began to evolve the Soil Conservation Act as a substitute for unconstitutional AAA (TIME, Jan. 27), President Roosevelt gratefully sent him to Europe to look for possible U. S. grain markets. Said Mr. Davis then: “My job will be to size up in a realistic way just what the prospects are for American farmers to sell more of their goods.” Last week, ending a six-week tour of Europe, Mr. Davis told newshawks in London: “There is not the slightest hope we can regain for some important commodities the great markets here we once enjoyed. . . . The farmers at home must continue national efforts to adjust their production to these changed conditions.”