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Washington, d. C.
ARGENTINE AAA
Argentina, that country of open
spaces, bumper crops and heavy ex-
ports, is on the verge of doing a
Henry Wallace. Never before have
the Argentines admitted that there
was any system better than grow
ing all the wheat you could get out
of the soil and all the flax and all
the barley.
They have long been the greatest
grain exporting country in the
world, and they have become so by
sowing wide, reaping heavy, and
filling outbound vessels to the
matches with grain.
But now the outbound vessels are
few, and the grain is backing up
and flowing over the fields where
still another crop is ripening. Off
cial estimates indicate that a year
hence Argentina will have a wheat
surplus of 200,0O0,000 bushels.
So the Argentine government is
doing the unheard of; actually is
considering acreage control for next
years crop. The grain board has
been given authority to cut the plant
ings of wheat, flaxseed, and barley,
by 10 per cent, in an AAA for Ar
gentina.
NEW BRITISH AMBASSADOR
Appointment of the distinguished
Viscount Halifax as British ambas-
sador to the United States was
greeted with mixed feelings in Off
cial Washington.
Those accustomed to the refresh
ing candor of Lord Lothian and the
tremendous success he had achieved
in winning American popularity,
greeted Halifax's appointment with
no great enthusiasm. But to the
hoity-toity of Washington society, al
ways bit shocked at the way Lord
Lothian permitted his dogs to lie in
the middle of the living-room floor,
Halifax will be great relief.
In fact, Washington society al
ready is looking forward to the new
Halifax era, when senators and
lowly congressman no longer will be
the vogue at embassy dinner tables,
as they were under Lothian; and
when the ambassador no longer will
pick up Rhodes scholars from Wash
ington street corners and bring them
to dinner without benefit of stiff shirt
bosom.
From now on, Washington can be
sure that all embassy dinner lists
will be guarded by that super-guard
ian of social prestige, Miss Irene
Boyle, long the czarina of the Brit
ish embassy. So all will be peace
full again.
However, Viscount Halifax will
bring world of experience to his
new job. He has been undersecre-
tary for the colonies, minister of
war, minister of agriculture, presi-
dent of the board of education, lord
privy seal, leader of the house of
lords and president of the council.
By all odds his toughest job, and
that in which he probably achieved
most success, was as viceroy of In
dia at one of the periods when India
was striving desperately for home
rule. Halifax conducted long Sc
ries of negotiations with Mahatma
Gandhi, in the course of which the
Indian leader sometimes would stop
at the climax of an important discus
sion and 60 off to commune with
his soul.
So Viscount Halifax, who also hap
pens to be one of the most devoutly
religious men in England, but who
does not ordinarily mix religion with
government discussions, adopted the
same tactics. Whenever he faced a
difficult crisis in the negotiations, he
excused himself for PRAYER.
In the end Halifax got large part
of what he wanted from Gandhi.
U. S. WINE TRADE
The combination of the war and
the holiday season is bringing the
best business to domestic wines
since World War I.
All of the six important wine ex-
porting countries are affected by the
war. France, Algeria, Italy and
Germany are shut off from interna-
tional trade, while Spain and Portu-
gal have difficult transportation
problems.
In fact, there are no foreign sup
plies of champagne in sight, and the
department of commerce estimated
that the stocks on hand month
ago CTS, 900 gallons) would be heavi-
ly drained by holiday consumption
and exhausted within the next few
months.
Result is that the United States
domestic wine industry is enjoying
a boom demand. We are even ex-
porting wine.
In the month of October, exports
of u. S. wines were 204, 900 gallons,
or more than twice as much as had
been exported in any entire year
since repeal of the Eighteenth
amendment. Odd angle is that most
of our wine is going to a market
normally enjoyed by France, name
ly French Indo-China.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
The isolationist America First
committee is doing much more eff
fective job of organizing units in col
leges than its rival Committee for
the Defense of America by Aiding
the Allies. America First has sew