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Fascist Germany had the rebuilding of 15 years of Republican Germany to take advantage of when Fascists seized power; Poland's rulers inherited ruins. Communist Russia had immeasurably vaster resources to begin with, and her rulers had the total confiscated wealth of the nation. But when Poland was set up at the end of World War I the area it took over had lost...
Denmark was not badly off, although exports to Britain (50% of Denmark's trade) were declining. With enough gasoline for three months, Denmark locked it up, canceled private motoring. There were enough raw materials, foodstuffs, consumers goods, but Government officials said rationing might begin after September...
From Moscow came word that Ambassador Shigenori Togo and Premier-Foreign Commissar Vyacheslaff Molotov had signed a truce. Outer Mongolia-Man-chukuo fighting would stop at once, border delimitations begin. With mutual kisses still wet on the unblushing cheeks of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, the world jumped, too soon, to the conclusion that Japan and Russia would also make strange love. The Japanese soon announced that a non-aggression pact between Japan and Russia was "not under consideration." The truce was simpler than that. Russia had some important business in Poland, Japan in China-business so urgent that fighting...
...Brauchitsch became chief of Group Command 4 in Leipzig, the jumping-off place to the top jobs in the German Army. By then the Army was in a turmoil. Hitler was impatient to begin his grabs and the Army knew it was not ready. Loyalties were split between the Army and the Nazis, and there was sharp disagreement between those who were willing to back Hitler in a bluff and those who counseled delay. Brauchitsch kept mum, but when the purge came and Blomberg and Fritsch lost their jobs,* his good friend Reichenau recommended him to Hitler...
...Moore predicted the exact month in which the British General Strike would begin: May 1926. He foretold Anschluss between Germany and Austria a year in advance. Nevertheless, last month in the Sunday Dispatch Old Moore said flatly: "During August . . . there is no doubt that Mr. Chamberlain will steer the Ship...