Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Empire held a quiet mass meeting last week in Manchester. They had given His Majesty's Government sleepless nights by closing their mills, throwing 50,000 of the King's subjects out of work (TIME, Aug. 13). This was their decorous way of hinting that the British Embassy in Berlin had better get busy. They had shipped £1,500,000 worth of yarn to Germany in all good faith. They had not been paid, as bland German importers pointed out that the Reichsbank had blocked all such transfers to conserve Germany's foreign exchange. What had the Embassy done...
...gentlemen of the British Foreign Office the Manchester mass meeting was, after all, only a gathering of persons in trade. Stiffly the Foreign Office reported that the Berlin Embassy had just obtained an agreement under which the Reichsbank would pass payments due on British goods imported into Germany after Aug. 20, 1934. This agreement did not cover the £1,500,000 already owing on yarn. Also it was "terminable without notice in the event of endangering the stability of the mark." In short. British diplomacy had let Lancashire down...
Zipping back to Berlin, the forehanded Chancellor summoned his Cabinet and in the night before President von Hindenburg died a decree law was drafted and signed by the harried Ministers, ready for proclamation to block the Constitutional procedure under which owl-eyed Supreme Court Chief Justice Dr. Erwin Bumke would normally have become Acting President on the death of Paul von Hindenburg...
...Kaiser-Damm Hall in Berlin this week gathered 7,000 German Baptists, 3,280 Baptists from 60 other nations. Six years ago the Baptist World Alliance had picked that time and place for its Fifth Congress. When Germany went Nazi many a Baptist wanted to switch the meeting to Zurich. But Baptist leaders stuck to their plans because they believed they were confronted with "a challenge to Christian courage and faith...
...over a promising political career for bigger pickings, married his dead friend's mistress, scurried faster and faster over the Tom Tiddler's ground of post-War London. He and Undine met again, realized too late that they were still in love. At a belated reunion in Berlin all the old friends met for the last time...