Modern Review October 1944

You are aware of the bitter lessons which we have learnt to our cost as a result of the operations of such combines as the Swedish Combine in the match industry the activities of Lever Brothers in the soap and other industries and the Imperial Chemical Copany in the chemical and dyeing industries. [...] The following letter published in the Statesman represents the view of the supporters of the Bill: The Hindu Intestate Bill which is most mild is going to be placed before the Central Legislature in this NMI]OD. [...] The and the British the French the Dutch the and all the other: have made this clear to On fn. [...] Rumania's capitulation seems to have caught the Nazi High Command unawares as the collapse of the defence lines in the extreme south of the Russian front seems to have compelled the Germans to give up all ideas of holding on to the soil of France. [...] Prbably the reserves ear-marked for France had to be drawn upon heavily in order to buttress the defences on the frontiers of Hungary and Czecho-Slovakia and further the German High Command had to make hurried preparations against a major breach in the Reich's defences in the south-east through which the dreaded avenging forces of the Soviets might pour in and complete the disaster.