Word: clodius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Berlin waited for Molotov to appear (and Moscow denied he was going), Germany's Dr. Karl Clodius was in Bucharest pressing Rumania for more oil-and reinforcing his arguments with showings of hair-raising motion pictures of the German conquest of Poland. In the face of this pressure and of the danger that his country might be partitioned among Russia, Germany and Hungary if he refused to play ball, King Carol showed guts. He expelled a British Reuters correspondent who filed a story that Germany had delivered an ultimatum to Rumania, announced that a Rumanian trade delegation would...
Germany, the third partner in the game, had played her last trump three weeks before when her economic expert and premier promiser Dr. Karl Clodius arrived on the Italian scene just in time to scotch an Anglo-Italian cannons-and-airplane-engines-for-coal deal. Now, having maintained that a neutral that submits to British control is no longer a neutral and is fair game for Nazi submarines and bombers, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop realized that a ticklish situation was bound to arise if the Axis partner were compelled to knuckle down to British seapower. As though to lend...
...supplies of cotton, wool, jute, aluminum and iron from Rumanian factories, not only assured the British Government that Rumania's exports of oil to Germany would not exceed 130,000 tons per month, but embargoed all aviation fuel and lubricants from leaving the country. With Dr. Karl Clodius, economic field marshal for Adolf Hitler, due back in Bucharest this week for a final showdown on Rumanian oil, this step was a daring one indeed. And Rumania backed it up by ordering to their regiments at once 200,000 reservists who had been called for March 1. Troops, ammunition, tanks...