BEW
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BEW had great plans to cut off oil from Spain, get useful chrome instead of useless gold from South Africa; the State Department cooled them off in a hurry.
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BEW took the final say on international trade away from the State Department, the first successful raid by the New Deal on Secretary Hull's demesne since 1933.
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Along with the remnants of BEW, these now become the new Office of Economic Warfare, headed by the Administration's oldtime trouble shooter, able Leo T. Crowley.
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Thus BEW last week was frantically teaching Army and Navy officers how to run rationing and price control, how to by-pass existing Axis-established laws when distributing U.S. civilian goods in Africa.
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The upstart BEW seemed to have been authorized to rush into State's well-kept gardens, trample State's delicate diplomatic plants abroad.
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