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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest factor in Mediterranean affairs is Italy's future policy. Nobody knows it better than astute Ali Maher Pasha (long an adviser of King Farouk), who became Egypt's Premier three weeks ago. Many an anxious Briton had urged that, if Italy is to be neutral, she be forced to give some token to insure neutrality...
...possible a corselet should be worn. This one piece is the better choice, but if the figure is heavy brassiere and well-boned corset may be preferred. Knickers should be in Directoire style, with elastic at waist and knees, in any dark shade preferred. Nurses and other national workers who wear light frocks will still choose white or the pinks, peach or pastel blue underwear shades...
...plenipotentiary but they let us know through their Ambassador they were now contemplating whether and how far they were able to consider British proposals. . . . If it was possible to make the German Reich and its head of state take this . . . then the German nation would not deserve anything better than to disappear from the stage. . . . I have decided to speak to the Poles in the same language as they are speaking to us. . . . Our soldiers have been shot at, and since 5:45 we have been shooting back...
Foreign Orders. By week's end, war commodities were booming. The basis for this boom, as for better stock prices, was the calculation of the funds which foreign Governments have for purchases in the U. S. Belligerents who have defaulted on U. S. loans cannot borrow in the U. S. in ordinary ways, but the Export-Import Bank has funds that it can lend to exporters of U. S. products. Last week RFC announced it would be glad to help...
...shares, stockholders will now have to trust that Yokohama Specie Bank will repay their capital in the next four years. But with Japan intent on squeezing all Occidental enterprises out of Asia, and particularly keen to get gold for her nearly empty war chest, this looked like a far better risk than a gold mine in Korea...