U.S. bankers are troubled with what happens to the frozen assets of countries at war. Most concern the Dutch, who have around $700m. of dollar assets in the U. S.

The world’s biggest bank. Chase National of N. Y., last week was embarked upon an attempt to solve U. S. bankers’ most annoying headache: who controls the U. S. funds of Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Belgian, Latvian and other Russian and Nazi victims? The assets of ten such countries have already…

Round-up information in the neutral European nations. In The NL. the earth was hard as brick; canals and flooded lands, which Holland counts on to defend her, were sheets of ice.

Late last August Europe went through its last great pre-war crisis—terminated by war in Poland and the west. Late last November Europe went through another less spectacular crisis—terminated by war in Finland. Last week Europe was in the midst of another crisis.

The seriousness of the latest crisis…