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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt's Senate spokesman on Neutrality, Chairman Key Pittman of the Foreign Relations Committee, brought forth a plan to amend the present law so that the President need no longer prohibit munitions sales to belligerent nations, but only forbid U. S. ships to transport any goods to belligerents and U. S. nationals to travel on belligerents' ships. A "cash & carry" plan for all exports to belligerents would obviously work against Adolf Hitler, who in case of war with England and France would lack both cash to buy and ships to carry...
...found him also bedded with influenza, at his farm near Charlotte. So was his wife. He got up long enough to be sworn in as Michigan's 54th Governor, first Lieutenant Governor in the State's history to be promoted by death. His wife had her bed brought downstairs so she could watch the ceremony. Ailing Oldster Dickinson, who saw eye to eye with Frank Fitzgerald in many matters announced that he would "obviously"not be a candidate for re-election after filling out the remaining 21-month term...
Moldiest of all, however, is the fact that Czecho-Slovakian economy rested on its ability to import raw materials and export the finished product. Now that it is brought inside the closed Nazi economy of warfare, Czecho-Slovakia can no longer fulfill its economically useful purpose. The same thing happened after Anschluss, but fortunately for the Reich, Czecho-Slovakia, unlike Austria, can feed herself. Best hope for Czech as well as Austrian industry is that Dictator Hitler will soon grab some backward, goods-consuming neighbor States. Otherwise it goes without saying that the Czech standard of living will be lowered...
...article brought an immediate call at the Foreign Office from German Minister Prinz Viktor zu Wied, who called it a gross insult on the person of the Field Marshal. The author of that gross insult, it turned out, was none other than the Knight of the Silver Shield-Nils Silfver sköld, brother-in-law of Field Marshal Göring...
WASHINGTON--Grave fears over the trend of Central European events brought the Administration's giant rearmament program in step nearer completion today when the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a $512,-188,882 War Department bill for the year beginning July 1, with funds for Army Air Corps expansion...