Word: barter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aware that Germany yearns to get in Paraguay's good books with barter dealings, Secretary of State Cordell Hull beam ingly chalked up another score for "inter-American cooperation," devised others yet to come...
Although German-Brazilian trade continued to flourish, Brazil and Germany pouted diplomatically at each other throughout the winter. Italy, Germany's Axis partner, joined the pouting when it tried unsuccessfully to get Brazilian coffee by barter arrangement rather than pay gold for it. This spring Countess Edda Ciano, wife of the Italian Foreign Minister, daughter of Benito Mussolini and a capable behind-the-scenes Axis diplomat, visited Brazil (TIME, May 22). While "health" Daughter trip, Edda said Brazilians she was thought only her on a visit somehow connected with Axis diplomacy...
...Dictator Busch. Guessed Seito: Bolivia will soon join the Anti-Comintern Pact. Guessed Bolivian Minister Dr. Antonio Campero Arce in Rome: Bolivia is a totalitarian State, it will soon join the Pact. Kept guessing in Washington, U. S. observers guessed hardest about Bolivia's oil barter deal with Germany, gasped at a rumor that an ex-German staff officer in Bolivia swung...
...barter deal with Germany?-"Absolutely untrue...
...With exports falling in 1933, Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, head of the Nazified Reichsbank, first prohibited the transfer of interest on German foreign debts and then evolved a system of control boards to balance imports and exports. Out of these equilibrist schemes grew the blocked currency accounts and the barter devices, with the Germans paying foreign exporters in special marks good only for German goods at a price lower than the internal price level. Boycotts and currency difficulties kept lopping off chunks of normal German trade with England, the U. S., and Soviet Russia, but export subsidies to the extent...