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February 21, 1918 issue

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This article presents information on various political and economic developments from all over the world. It reports on a political and military crisis involving British Prime Minister Lloyd George's government in Great Britain that was temporarily averted when the government won a victory over its adversaries. It also informs about the growing economic and political chaos in Soviet Union according to the latest delayed dispatches from Petrograd. The entire foreign commerce of the United States was proclaimed subject to license by President Woodrow Wilson, under powers granted him by the Espionage and Trading with the Enemy acts.

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ECONOMIC policy; CRISES; ECONOMIC indicators; GEORGE, Lloyd; WILSON, Woodrow, 1856-1924; GREAT Britain; UNITED States
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