Word: balkanizing
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Breathless in pace and implications was the swooping Balkan air tour last week of autocratic German Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, whom closest friends call "Willy." In Vienna, Belgrade, Athens, Sofia and Budapest the Machiavellian doctor had fun insisting that he flew only to promote "economic peace." Just before he took off for Berlin, however, tactless Dr. Schacht could not resist blurting out what kind of economic peace he promotes. "Do creditor countries desire to renounce their claims against Germany?" he asked sharply. "If so they should say so, as Germany must either be allowed to earn...
Broader Schacht facts were that in the past two years Germany has become Hungary's best customer, the greatest exporter to and buyer from Yugoslavia. By Schacht barter deals, Germany is now selling the Balkan countries manufactured goods, possibly at as much as 50% below cash prices in exchange for their raw stuffs. French heavy industry, which used to have Yugoslavia economically in its pocket, is gradually being frozen out. With a Radical Cabinet now ruling France, conservative or reactionary Balkan regimes look increasingly to Berlin...
Swift to snub Haile Selassie by sending diplomatic regrets were the U. S., Russia, France, Germany, Japan, the Little Entente, all the Scandinavian and Balkan States, and five of the 20 Latin American republics, plus all the British Dominions, vice-regal India and His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. Captain Eden excused himself by saying that he had to make a political speech elsewhere. His swank Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Cranborne, explained: "My presence is possible only because I can meet the Emperor in a private, non-political capacity." In their official capacities came the Argentine...
...Balkan wars, curtain raiser to the big show, gave both Austria and Russia the dangerous feeling that each had sacrificed more power and prestige than the other. Author Wolff does not believe that the War was inevitable. If Germany had not let Austria have her head in dealing with Serbia after Serajevo, if news of Serbia's satisfactory reply to Austria's ultimatum had not been suppressed for three crucial days-in short, if Germany had not taken too long a gambling chance for the sake of bluffing her opponents, peace might have been preserved. Author Wolff absolves...
...their ardor, her adroit manager (Reginald Owen) brings them together for one last meaningful duet. Good shot: Gilda Gray, celebrated a decade ago for her extraordinary hip movements, showing cafe patrons what made her famed. Professional Soldier (Twentieth Century-Fox). An ex-colonel of Marines (Victor McLaglen) kidnaps a Balkan...