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PAGE TIIE SUN, BALTIMORE, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 10, 1965 acknowledge the transition, General de Gaulle is one. Others may acknowl Government in Italy's Industry ment "adjust" domestic expenditure in the right direction after winning Two Doors from the Institute. It was founded In 1948 THE SUN Published Every Weekday By By HELEN DELICTI BENTLEY the agency through which "the Italian State is able to control and stimulate economic development in sectors which are of vital interest to the country. Thanks to I.R.I, it can move in where private enterprise has failed to show initiative." Apparently that lack of initiative existed in all phases of business, since I.R.I.'s tentacles are even into radio and television and the motorway companies. Because I.R.I, was originally founded to help stabilize the banks, they function simply as part of the group and not under one of the five divisions.

Three major banks remaining under I.R.I, control since the 1930's are Ihe Banca Commercial Italiana, Credito Italiano and Banco di Roma. Through these banks, the Institute also controls Mediobanca and Credito Fon-diario Italiano Sardo. These banks are free to make their own decisions in matters which concern companies controlled by the Institute, it is said, and at the end of 1962, only 5.5 per cent of the credits accorded by the three major banks went to firms in the group. Almost simultaneously with the organization of the Institute, STET was set up (October, 1933) as a holding company for telephones. In the beginning, STET took in three companies which served all of northern and part of central Italy.

In 1957, the Parliament voted (or I.R.I, to buy up the majority of shares in two other-telephone companies, thus placing the entire Italian network under I.R.I.'s control. The second financial company established by the state agency was Finmare, created in 1936 to reorganize all the major subsidized shipping lines. The vast network of shipping lines was divided into four sectors with each entrusted to a navigation company and specific trade routes. Italy now is in the process of doubling its output of steel to 16 million tons annually, with 11 million to come out of the I.R.I, steel concerns. This has developed principally since the end of World War II when the output was 143,000 tons.

Finsider, the steel holding company, was the third to be organized by the Institute in 1937. However, even it did not function to any extent until the war was ended and it was realized just how necessary it was for Italy to produce its own steel. Finsider did not simply rebuild bombed-out steel plants, but prepared a bold plan which completely revolutionized the old production methods and has enabled the Italian steel works to contribute decisively to the growth of all Italian industry by supplying it with steel and iron at internationally competitive prices. Thirty-six engineering and manufacturing firms belong to Finmeccanica, the fourth holding company set up by Rome, The Italian Government plays a vital financial role in most industry in the country, a role performed through the Institute of Industrial Reconstruction, popularly referred to as the I.R.I. Through the I.R.I., the Italians boast that one dollar out of every ten invested in shipping, shipbuilding, air-lines, steel, telephone and communications generally, banks, manufacturing, and electricity emanates from the state.

The other nine reportedly come from private enterprise. However, there are reliable sources who feel the state's portion is more than 10 cent. A brochure recently issued by the I.R.I, is entitled on the cover: "I.R.I., An Italian Experiment. State Industry Competes with Private Enterprise." This refers principally to private enterprise in other countries, because I.R.I, (the State) appears to participate In every Italian industry from the manufacturing of Alfa Romeos to optical instruments. Few people realize how socialistic Italy is, or that this broad control by the Government here dates back to 193,1, when the nation, too (under Mussolini) ras endeavoring to recover from the throes of the depression.

I.R.I, was the state's way of saving the Italian banks which were threatened with collapse, of putting the finances of Italy's industry in order. After four years of experimenting in financial policy, the I.R.I, succeeded in accomplishing its first two assignments. And then the state realized that I.R.I, had vast possibilities of development as an instrument for putting through a national economic policy and transformed it into a permanent institution. The Institute had sufficient strength to be a tremendous help toward the reconstruction of Italian industry at the end of World War II. Italy's comeback and prosperity today are traced back to the firm hand and backing of I.R.I, before and after World War II.

For actual operation, I.R.I, is divided into five segments or holding companies. The head of each holding company acts as liaison between the all-powerful Institute and the industrial firms under its control. For example, four major steamship lines operate via I.R.I, through Fin-mare, one of the five divisions. Finsidcr controls the iron and steel works; Fincantieri controls the shipyards; Finmeccanica controls I.R.I.'s engineering concerns and manufacturing concerns; and STET is responsible for the five telephone companies. At one time Finelettrica headed its electricity concerns.

Now they, along with the rest of the Italian electricity industry, have been nationalized under ENEL, the Enterprise of National Electrical Lines. The I.R.I, describes itself as being office with broad new welfare prom ises? It will be hard but the Labor Government has got to try, and is trying. Checkmate The State Department would be in a better position to administer its regulations limiting travel to Cuba by United States citizens if it would make intelligent exceptions to them. The case of Bobby Fischer, the United States chess champion, is an example. The young Mr.

Fischer was denied official permission to go to Cuba to take part in an international chess tournament because he didn't fit into any of the categories of Americans who, under the official regulations, may be allowed to go there. Journal isls, business men with long standing interests in Cuba and persons on hu manitarian missions are eligible under the regulations; Mr. Fischer writes about chess and his attorney sug gestcd, without sucess, that he might thus qualify for the journalist cate gory. It is reported that Mr. P'ischcr will take part in the tournament by telephone, but this will satisfy neither the chess experts nnr the American onlookers who dislike seeing their Government entangled in its own red tape.

Urban Department The United States Senate last week rejected a constitutional amendment which would have tended to continue the special influence long exercised in slate legislatures by rural voters. This week the Senate is expected to approve a bill designed to grant a special Fed eral recognition to city voters by establishing a Cabinet-level Depart mcnt of Housing and Urban Development. The two proposals, taken together, are significant elements in the changing pattern of Federal-state-city relationships. It is hard to escape the conclusion that the strength of the state governments has been declining as the cities (metropolitan areas may be a more accurate term) have in creased their own direct dealings with the Federal Government. As a general proposition, the creation of a new urban department, with its administrative head a member of the President's Cabinet, is a belated Federal recognition of the importance and the complexity of the many govern mental matters affecting urban citizens.

As a specific matter, the bill coming up in the Senate (it already has been passed by the House of Representa tives) would lake the large group of Federal agencies concerned with hous ing and home financing and raise them to the status of a department. The secretary of the new department would be expected, however, to become the chief spokesman for the cities and to have a voice in the development of Federal policies affecting transporta tion, public health, education, taxation and related subjects, as well as housing. If the new department is to be of real value to the country, it should help to develop coherent policies to make our cities more livable and their many acute problems more man American Eelioes A quiet technical article reproduced in part on the inside of the European Community's July bulletin is a good index to present prospects for political integration in western Europe economic integration is, of course, something else. The article is by Professor Fernand Dehousse, who teaches international law at Liege University. Pro fessor Dehousse is distressed at a wide misunderstanding in the Common Market area of the true reach of the treaties establishing the Common Market, the Coal and Steel Community and Euratom, and of the regulations announced under them.

'Some national authorities have not yet recognized that the Communities' treaties and regulations must be applied directly within member states," says Professor Dehousse. "They remain attached to the old concept that the treaties and regulations must be 'accepted' into domestic law by national enactment or decree." But "this outdated concept denies the autonomous character of the Community's legal order," the professor continues. "It also raises the dangerous prospect of each member state's accepting whichever measure it so chooses. Americans who have read this far will pick up some arresting echoes from their own political history. Professor Dehousse like a man who thinks West Europe has moved from the Articles of Confederation to the Constitution.

Technically he may well be right. The trouble there are in- edge the transition without really welcoming it and this group includes some of the topmost authorities on the British constitution. It has long been supposed by many in this country that except for de Gaulle, Britain would have eased happily into the Common Market in 1963. But many a thoughtful Britisher wondered whether he was ready to have European "treaties and regulations applied directly within" the United Kingdom, without being "accepted into domestic law by national enactment or decree." It would be quite a step, Katzenbacli on Crime The close questioning by Judiciary Committee senators of Abe Fortas, a nominee for the Supreme Court, on his attitudes toward crime and punishment is relevant in the capital city of a nation in which crime has increased six times faster than population growth since 1958. As it happened, the relevance was suggested by Attorney General Katzenbach in a letter made public only the day before to the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals in Washington.

"In general," Mr. Katzenbach commented, "over the past quarter century, appellate decisions marking off broad new areas of reform in criminal procedure have gained public acceptance and the full support of law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and judges alike. But as the cases have presented more and more difficult questions of fairness and pro priety, I believe the judges have left the public behind, and, even among the judges, the margins of the consensus have been passed." Pointing his moral, Mr. Katzenbach stated that "as a result, policemen, district attorneys, and trial court judges have become increasingly unsure of the law with respect to arrest and post-arrest procedures, often differing vigorously among themselves." Then with direct references well understood in the profession, Mr. Katzenbach says "in your own court of appeals, the result is too often determined by the particular panel which hears a case.

Thus the consistency, the efficiency, and consequently the fairness of justice have suffered. These are not words lightly used, nor is their import light in any way. The first element in a rule of law is that maximum degree of certainty which earnest human striving can supply. Innovation which exceeds the "margins of the consensus" may work in another way. Senators and judges and the law-abiding public all agree in all essentials about the judicial process in the criminal law, Mr.

Katzenbach relies on that agreement in singling out some points for closer topical study. High Octane Sargent Shriver, directing both the Peace Corps and the anti-poverty program, sets a personal example of the satisfaction to be gained from hard, rewarding work. And in the Peace Corps the emphasis is on hard work with long hours and low pay and on helping others. This is one of the many reasons why the Peace Corps has made' such a favorable impression on many Americans, at a time when pub lic attention often seems to be concentrated on luxury and leisure. In a question-and-answer article in 7 his Week magazine Mr.

Shriver was discussing the experience of Peace Corps volunteers returning to the United States after completing their overseas assignments. In the course of a generally favorable record Mr. Shriver noted that only seven per cent even mentioned any difficulty about finding a job. Expanding on this point, he said that "after working sixteen hours a day for two years, they are not willing to accept the more dawdling pace of our affluent society. They don't want to work just so they can get time off.

They ant to accomplish something with their energy, their dedication. By 1970, Mr. Shriver noted, some 50,000 men and women will have completed two-year Peace Corps tours. He went on to say: "As I see the Peace Corps, it's designed to take people who've been going along in the ordinary stream, shake them up, awaken them to their potential, and let them discover how it feels to live with high octane in their tank. Then we spin them off back into civilian life where, hopefully, they will keep right on going at top speed." Thus the Peace Corps may be pay ing an extra dividend to the United S.a!e.

from which everyone is likely and embraces motorcars, electronics, railways and rolling stock, aeronauti cal engineering, and electrical engi neering. The Fincantieri Group represents more than 75 per cent of Italy's ship building industry, from the Ansaldo of Genoa to the Canticri Riuniti dell' Adriatico, from the Navalmeccanica to the Officine di Taranto. "This is one sector in which the characteristics of a diversified group like I.R.I, have proved particularly the national agency boasts. "I.R.I, has been able to tackle the crisis tof shipbuilding by moving in two directions: first, it accelerated the renewal of the Finmare and Finsider fleets, thus avoiding a very serious halt in the naval engineering industry. At the same time, in those areas where the shipyards were in difficulty, new ventures have been started by Finsider and Finmeccanica, which have made it possible to keep the level of employment constant.

"Everything that I.R.I, could do to alleviate the shipbuilding crisis has been done. New conditions and solutions depend on the state of the world market, on national and EEC policy in the shipbuilding industry." Alitalia airlines was formed in 1957 from two services in which the state had substantial holdings. By 1966, Alitalia will have five giant jet planes, plus twelve more of the DC-8 variety, It already has 49 aircraft, including 9 DC-8's and 14 Caravelles. The Institute entered the television field in 1952 when it bought out the majority shareholding in Italian radio and television and then initiated regular programming in television. Italians must subscribe to either radio and television to enjoy it and the I.R.I, has been endeavoring to reduce the subscription rate so that everyone can enjoy these two means of communication which are considered neces sities in the United States.

About 10 million persons subscribe to radio and 4.5 million to television in Italy now. In addition to controlling industrial operations, the I.R.I, has founded IFAP to produce skilled labor for these industries. This means technicians and managers as well as laborers. IFAP operates training centers in Genoa, Trieste, Naples, Milan and Terni which issue diplomas on various levels, but all aimed toward providing the right kind of people to work in Italy's industries. At the present time, the group's investment in new plant construction and expansion is running at a rate of $801 million a year, up through 1966.

The figure is expected to increase sharply on an annual basis after that. Today the I.R.I, is considered the fourth industrial group in Europe, with England sitting at the top of the list. represent a move for progressive government. If the United States could remove this self-imposed bar on. negotiation by an honorable withdrawal compatible with our aims, then North Vietnam could prove its real interest, independent of China.

Samuel A. Talbot. Baltimore. Drunken Driving Sir: I would like to congratulate you on your program of intensive reporting of drunken driving on the highways of Maryland. Keeping this problem in the public view cannot help but lead to an eventual solution of the needless loss of lives through drunken driving.

Timothy D. Baker. Baltimore. Time to Talk Sir: As we sink ever deeper into the quicksand of accelerated jungle warfare in Vietnam, we are being told we must live up to a commitment to a nonexistent government of a people, whose only effective fighting forces men, women and children are arrayed against us in a desperate struggle for their independence. We are asked to wage this risky war in an area dominated by the land forces of our two major enemies China and Russia.

President Johnson was selected by the voters last fall over Barry Gold-water on the assumption that he would keep us out of the major war that Goldwater advocated. Is it not time then for President Johnson to tell the American people what we hope to accomplish in Vietnam, where the French failed so disastrously in 1954; how many thousands of American casualties it will take to achieve this goal and just how he proposes to go about it? It should be fully explained how our vital interests are so greatly involved at this great distance from our mainland as to justify so risky and costly a war. In the light of Secretary McNamara's repeated failure to properly predict the outcome of our previous efforts in Vietnam, what is the assurance that our new acceleration of the war will bring about anything more than an even greater step-up of their war efforts by the formidable forces opposing us? In the words of Ad'ai Stevenson, "It's time to talk sense to the American people." In any event, it is time that the President talked to the American people. J. Hayes Dorsey.

Berea, Ohio. H. L. Mencken By ALVIN H. LEVltf- I With the closing of the House of the; Good Shepherd at Mount and Hollins streets, one of the few remaining landmarks of my West Baltimore boyhood geography has been erased.

This geography didn't range far in miles in-, deed, not far in city blocks but'what thrilling and sense-tingling areas it encompassed and what a splendid polyglot native population ranged its concrete paths. As a boy, I lived at my grand mother's house at 1528 Hollins street, an address which we always proudly emphasized was just two doors from H. L. Mencken. At the west end of my world, possibly 200 feet from where we sat on the white marble "stoop," eating snowballs in the humid summer twilight, ran the high gray stone wall of the Good Shepherd.

My grandmother told me it was a home for bad girls when I asked about the broken glass cemented atop the wall. The evening bells softly sounding the Angelus from the home were sweetly at odds with the phrase "bad girls." Facing us as we sat on our marble perch was the green uncluttered area of Union Square, its majestic columned rotunda gracing and protecting the cool bubbling waters of its natural springs. At dusk, the gas lights flickered on, and occasionally a lamplighter, walking his rounds with ladder on his shoulder and bucket in his hand," climbed up to clean the soot from the globes. To the far east, at Fremont avenue, lay the crumpled mysteries of Wy-man's wall, a city block of mountains and canyons of masonry and brick, the remnants of the glory of Mr. Wyman's estate, torn and dynamited to make room for industry.

The, misfortunes of the depression had a backlash of good luck for a twelve-year-old industry did not move in, we played cowboys and Indians in this man-made desert, and we searched for hidden treasure rooms beneath the debris whenever the boredom of a hot summer day moved us to new fancies. Between Wyman's wall on the east and the Good Shepherd on the west lay Poppleton Street Synagogue, torn down recently to make room for a filling station; the Mount Clare shops of the three city blocks of Hollins Market; and eight thriving mercantile blocks of Baltimore street, with the most glorious Hallowe'en parades in Baltimore or any other supernatural area. James McHenry School No. 10 stood in the center of this world almost back-to-back with St. Peter's Parochial School.

Neither our thoughts nor our feet ranged as far as Lexington Market. We were provincially loyal to Hollins. The canvas awnings, A-framed over the wooden counter of each street stall, and the symmetrical piles of oranges and apples formed the theme of thousands of No. 10 School crayon drawings. In winter the wood-smoke of burning crates hung heavy in the air as the farmers and marketmen stomped their feet and swung their arms and turned their heavily-sweatered backs as close as possible to the drums of flaming wood.

Each Saturday the market was a new street carnival for us kids. The natives, as I've were a varied and a colorful group. We, had a literate and cultural pride in H. Li Mencken- "He's the only real, thinker in America according to George Bernard Shaw," my uncle explained "to me. Although he didn't say who George Bernard Shaw was, I inferred greatness from his tone, and I basked in the reflected glory of our neighbor's renown.

Equally famous in the area, living just a few feet from Edgar Allan Poe's home on Amity street, was the Pride of Ba'rnore, Jack Portney. I needed no literary uncle to explain his deeds to me as he pounded his skillful way to the top ranks of the prize ring. From the stores and from the redbrick row houses, from the alleys and from the intersecting by-streets cami doctors, public servants, dentists, teachers, lawyers, entertainers, writers, merchants, garagemen, engineers, politicians in each of these categories I can place names like Hollins street's Serio family, or Sammy Ross, of Fayette street, or Dr. Joe Shear, of Lombard street, or Mike Konstant, or Mike Pappas, or Ronnie Goodman, or Tony Salvetti, all kids in the early 1930 of which I rite. My daughter, reading this over my shoulder, says, "What's the point? You've got to have a point." She's aa English major at Maryland and I guess she's right.

But then she was born in 1945 and she's never played caddy with two bricks and two sticks in a back alley, or played red-line or tin-can-jimmy, or swiped chicken corti from the floor of the Mount Clare grain elevator to throw at the other kids in school; and she's never heard the clanging steel wheels of a No. 15 trolley crossing the tracks of the No. at Baltimore and Gilmor at 3 A.M. of a damp non-air-conditioned sleepless summer night, and the sound of the swaying, grumbling streetcar fading towards downtown, and thousands of other sounds and sights and smells that your report about the House of Good Shepherd stirs into life. I guess the point is that I am an old timesick man of 43, remeaiberin.

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1965 Singapore Out rremier Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore wept when he announced the island's secession from the Federation of Malaysia, and well he might. For Singapore it is an unhappy and unwanted development, apparently forced ty Malay extremists in the Government in Kuala Lumpur. It is a misfortune as well for the Federation. If needed association with a larger country than can be marked -y its own geographical limits, even rriore did Malaysia need the great center of trade and finance that Singa pore is. The fundamental difficulty, not a new one, is that Malays dominated the Government of Malaysia while Chinese, including the Chinese of Singapore, dominated its economy.

Now an independent Singapore will have to adjust the patterns of the trade by which it lives. This will mean increased commerce with Communist China, and probably renewed commercial relationships with Indonesia; relationships suspended earlier in the face of Indonesia's vow to crush Malaysia. Such renewal would inevitably cause new tensions between Singapore and the mainland, and might endanger the arrangements they have at the moment agreed to retain, such as the supplying of water to Singapore and joint continued adherence to the mutual defense treaty with Britain. vPremier Lee says that the policies of his Government on Singapore will be neither pro-Communist nor anti-Communist, in terms of trade. As to Internal politics, Singapore is not expected under him to become Communist itself, but Communist sentiment is strong there, and under some other leader it might.

The picture is melancholy from any point of view, except the point of view, whether in Jakarta or Peking, that wants weakness and instability, for its own purposes, in this part of Southeast Asia. Britain in Figures The symptom of Britain's economic troubles most visible to foreigners is lier chronic difficulty in maintaining the foreign value of the pound sterling. Once the king of reserve currencies-meaning that foreigners kept their reserves in pounds because they were sure the pound would hold its value-sterling is continued at around $2.80 these days only by strenuous and repeated exertions of the British Government, aided by its friends, including the United States. Observers know in a general way that money is a kind of mirror, reflecting the state of health of the economy it activates. What is the state of health of the British economy? Some statistical tables suggest the answer in a current survey of the British economic situation by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

The study is objective, but not unfriendly, since Britain is one of the charter members of the OECD. Two key sets of figures compare British income growth with the growth of British productivity. Income from employment is given an index number of 112.4 for I960. By the end of 1964 it had risen some 32 per cent, to 148.7. In the same period gross domestic product per person employed had gone from 103 to 119, about 10 per cent.

In other words, more pay, proportionately less production. And what about production going into exports, which is the way Britain makes her living in the world and, ultimately, defends the worth of sterling? The sur-ey shows Britain's share of world exports in manufactures was 15 9 per cent in I960, 12 8 per cent in fourth-quarter 1964. "For some time to come a larger share of production than in the past will have to be exported," fays the OECD, "and the growth of domestic expenditure adjusted in con- lequencef But can a Labor Letters to the Editor some time and see just how far this plan has succeeded. Anyone who loves America and her way of life must fight communism. Our Constitution is being thrown aside by the Supreme Court and laws are being made in favor of the Com-munist.

In 1952 Steve Nelson, an admitted leader of the Communist party, was convicted under the anti-sedition law of Pennsylvania to twenty years in prison. In 1957 the Warren Supreme Court freed him on the grounds that the Federal law covered sedition so the state law was null and void. Because of this decision many American Communists have been freed to go on undermining our Government. This is just one case. There are many more and the time is past due when we should take the time to find out what the Supreme Court is doing to our Government.

Mr. Filtzer is right: It is not a holy mission to wipe us out; it is an unholy one. Wake up, Americans, and fight the Communist conspiracy in our wonderful land before our tri-colored flag is diminished to a single shade of bloody Red. Margaret E. Doyle.

Elkridge. Substitution in Vietnam Sir: If our aim toward South Vietnam is really to relieve their people from suffering and oppression, do our methods lead to this? If not, are there means which do? It would be unworthy for America just coldly to use South Vietnam as a handy battleground for containing communism. The North Vietnam regime has agreed to a cease-fire if we will withdraw from South Vietnam. It is possible to do this without sacrificing our aims, if in our place, the terrorism of the Viet Cong is policed and controlled by others. We have not yet proposed this as a way to end the fighting and suffering.

Among such others might be the Pakistani, Malaysians, Japanese, Nepalese, Laotians and others who have not taken a strong anti-Communist stand, but have a major interest in peace in Southeast Asia. Such occupying forces could be backed to the hilt by our logistic support against all comers. The people of South Vietnam have never had a chance to choose between the Viet Cong and a government really concerned with their welfare. We our selves have denied them any plebiscite whatever. At least four-fifths of the Viet Cong are from South Vietnam, and many of them may indeed Bolton Hill and BURIIA Mr: Baa news readies even to a fishing camp in Maine.

The Sun has kept me abreast of the recent con troversy over increased assessments planned for the Bolton Hill area. Mr. Steiner wonders where Messrs Ward and Lapides heard of a five-year moratorium on assessments in Bolton Hill. Well, they heard of it at the same meeting at which I heard it and at the time I was president of the Mount Royal Improvement Association, in almost daily contact with Messrs Steiner and Sanderson of BURHA, and then, as now, a supporter of the Bolton Hill renewal program. It is high time for the city Government to stop welshing on its promises.

Promise No. 1 No heavy vehicular traffic on Bolton street. Only a mush room cloud protest from area resi dents kept Mr. Foley from welshing on that one. Promise No.

2 Refurbishing the city-owned park in the 1600-1700 blocks of Park avenue. The Board of Estimates knocked that one out of the last budget with such secrecy that even BURHA didn't know of it and after five years of plans and promises "to do something for a neighborhood which has done so much for itself." Promise No. 3 The assessment moratorium. It's time for BURHA to accept its role as redevelopment catalyst for all city departments, and not to forget last year's project in favor of next year's plan. Baltimore needs a sensitively-run Urban Renewal programfrom start to finish not one which blandly throw its hands up at the first sign of distress.

Richard N. Stein. Wayne, Me. Unholy Minion Sir: Donald A. Filtzer (letter, August 1) suggests that "no nation East or West has been charged with any holy mission to wipe out its adversaries." Just where was Mr.

Filtzer when Khrushchev said he would bury us and that our children would be Communists? Gus Hall, general secretary of the Communist party, U.S.A. in February, 1961, stated that he dreamed of the hour when the last congressman was strangled to death on the guts of the last preacher. Lenin set forth a three-step plan for taking over the world. The Communists have not deviated from this plan. The first step of it was the takeover of Europe, second Asia and third the Americas.

Take a look at a map European! who are slow toj to beneLL.