Word: danubia
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...Grand Elector Max has succeeded in creating Danubia out of Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia. Upon an economic stage set with starvation wages and rock-bottom farm prices steps a new Messiah. He is Johann Zimri, son of a Hungarian plumber who combines a knowledge of psychotherapy and osteopathy with the perfect bedside manner. Scores take to his simple belief that a little of God is in every man. With this magic, Zimri wins over an important industrialist, the Danubia youth movement, a onetime mistress of the Grand Elector, a leading journalist. In spite of this backing, the Messiah...
...fellows, these guests from Paris, the Britons thought. Short, witty, cigar-chewing French Premier Andre Tardieu had never turned up in more engaging fettle. He and his huge, long-boned Finance Minister, Pierre Etienne Flandin, not only pleased Scot MacDonald by the crystal lucidity of their plans for rescuing Danubia from near bankruptcy but provoked him at a midnight session over Scotch and cigars to roars of midriff mirth which did his morale a world of good. Facing newsfolk just before M. Tardieu dashed back to Paris, dignified Scot MacDonald beamishly confessed, "We did overflow a bit at times...
French Plan, To Mr. MacDonald's extreme discomfiture France's Flandin leaned his large elbows on the Cabinet table, rested his massive jowls upon his fists and left the defense of France's plan for saving Danubia largely to the British. The plan: 1) loans to Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Hungary and Austria totaling $40.000,000 or about 65¢ to each Danubian man, woman and child; 2) exclusion of Bulgaria (Germany's ally 1914-18) from this rescue party, although Bulgaria is on the Danube and in dire straits; 3) lowering inter-Danubian tariffs by 10% to 20% all round...
That was not the point at all, hotly retorted Dr. von Bülow. Quoting statistics by the ream to Scot MacDonald (who dislikes them), he contended that inter-Danubian trade, no matter how much it may be stimulated, cannot put Danubia back on her feet. It is Danubia's trade with Germany and Italy which must be encouraged, argued Dr. von Bülow, for that is of vital magnitude?four times larger than the trade of Danubia with Britain and France...
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