Word: danzig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...QUESTION OF THE HOUR-CAN DANZIG BE SAVED...
Although the Prime Minister was not as clear and definitely not as blunt in his Danzig warning as Nazi officials usually are, he in effect served notice that Britain did not think the Germans could win their lightning-war. And the British Government fitted actions to its words...
...Bavaria. Many of his political lieutenants were taking a rest. The German generals were said to be scattered in spas around the country. The Foreign Office at Berlin was almost deserted and hard-working Nazi editorial writers, finding little news to discuss, ridiculed the "democracy-manufactured" crisis over Danzig, the Free City on the Baltic, and made fun of the "'war of nerves" which the French and British Governments had professed to believe was beginning. In fact, official Germany last week-end put on a complacent air of studied inactivity...
Whatever the cause, His Majesty changed his course and decided to take an even more roundabout way. Accompanied by Queen Geraldine, his three-month-old son Skander, four of his sisters and a suite of 20, Zog first went to Bucharest, Rumania's capital. The temporary crisis over Danzig caused him to stay there three days, but when things died down he proceeded on to Warsaw. From Warsaw early this week he was scheduled to go to Gdynia, the Baltic Polish port near Danzig, where he was to catch a ship for France. Onthelstanbul-Bucharest-Warsaw-Gdynia-Paris route...
United has still to invest the remaining $5,500,000 of its market fund, but prefers to wait a little longer-until Danzig pops or recovery clicks. Meanwhile, United's management also waits for opportunities to switch out a wad of its $144,528,214 of utility stocks, and use that capital to become an investment banker, underwriter and integrator to U. S. utilities and other major industries. If it does so, it will have enough capital to operate on a scale that will make other underwriters look puny-among them the still friendly Morgans, whose divorced Morgan, Stanley...