Word: clodius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumania's General Ion Antonescu & friends, and Germany's economic expert Karl Clodius, had already disappeared into Russian jails. Glad to be rid of the embarrassment, his country had now gleefully handed over the former Rumanian dictator, who would presumably be held for a great trial of war criminals...
This week the Rumanians handed over to the Russians ex-Premier Ion Antonescu, ex-Foreign Minister Mihai Antonescu (no kin), famed Nazi Balkan Expert Dr. Karl Clodius...
...themselves a Jewish department store or a mine for practically nothing. German generals, quiet and scholarly, would talk here of their old campaigns and think up new ones. At one time or another Franz von Papen, Hitler's ambassador to Ankara . . . would rest in the lobby. . . . Suave Dr. Clodius, Hitler's economic wizard, would recover his breath here after endless discussions with General Antonescu. . . . Even Frau Himmler, wife of the Gestapo chief, looking like Elsa Maxwell, came and ate big portions of whipped cream...
Into Rome all last week poured platoons of German economic troubleshooters. First delegation was led by Adolf Hitler's top economist, Minister of Economics Dr. Walther Funk. After him came Trade Expert Dr. Karl Clodius and another brigade of graph-&-slide-rule underlings. When both the Doctors had finished talking to Benito Mussolini and his financial experts the Axis "had reached full agreement on all the most important economic questions connected with...
...Clodius, breathing heavily after six weeks of futile grimacing, chrome in the far-off year 1943 sounded better than no chrome at all. He tried to preserve his visage by bargaining for 150,000 tons in 1943-44. M. Menemencioglu coolly traded him down to 90,000 tons, with the added stipulation that Germany should sell Turkey ?T18,000,000 ($13,500,000) worth of war materials, from rifles to tanks, before an ounce of chrome was delivered...