Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immunity from German attack, and that the U. S. might be persuaded to help pay the cost of anything so obviously desirable. This school of British thought was heavily represented last week in the United Kingdom delegation sent to the ninth Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce in Berlin, a genial gathering of some 1,500 delegates from 41 nations. The British soap trust was represented by Chairman F. d'Arcy Cooper of Lever Brothers Ltd. who talked much privately about softsoaping the Germans with gold. But the British delegation's chief public spokesman for this idea...
Nearest thing to a spokesman in Berlin for the gold billions in the new U. S. strongbox at Fort Knox, Ky. was distinguished-looking President Thomas John Watson of International Business Machines Corp., leader of the U. S. delegation and promptly-elected President of the International Chamber of Commerce. The June issue of Think, International Business Machines' house organ, modestly omits to mention that President Watson was presented to King George VI at a levee during the Coronation period, otherwise is a banner Coronation issue, crammed with 82 pictures of Coronation events and socialites. Facing a full-page picture...
...inspection trip to Paris, for he is U. S. Commissioner General to the French Exposition. The flooding Seine had stopped work on the U. S. Pavilion and energetic Commissioner Watson managed to fit in a quick business trip to Manhattan before speeding back across the Atlantic last week to Berlin...
...some Kentucky gold to Germany, and they felt that as President of the I.C.C. he rated the new "Merit Cross" just created by Adolf Hitler and first bestowed on Benito Mussolini (TIME, June 14). Nazis Nos. 1, 2 and 3 (Hitler, Göring and Goebbels) turned out in Berlin to attend the first session of the I.C.C. and not only Mr. Watson but scores of other delegates gave the Nazi salute. But, though nearly everyone except Adolf Hitler applauded a declaration by Minister for National Economy Dr. Hjalmar Schacht that the Reichsbank wants "honest money and honest raw materials...
...London the German and Italian Ambassadors fortnight ago showed the solidarity of Berlin and Rome by arriving together for sessions of the increasingly farcical International Committee for Non-intervention chairmanned by Lord Plymouth. In Italy meanwhile Dictator Mussolini caused nationwide advertisements to appear of an editorial about to be printed in his personal newsorgan Popolo d'ltalia. When this came out it definitely rejected on behalf of II Duce any proposal that Italians fighting with the Rightists in Spain should be withdrawn and asked with reference to volunteers fighting with the Spanish Leftists: "Who has sufficient power to recall...