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Circulating in world capitals for days were vague reports that the British Government was again negotiating with Adolf Hitler over the impending crisis in the Free City of Danzig. One account told of a "positive peace plan" in which the Germans would be offered an international loan of $5,000,000,000 to enable them to change the Third Reich's economy from a war to a peace basis. Another story, originating in Washington and printed in the Philadelphia Inquirer, predicted a five-nation conference between Great Britain. France, Germany, Italy and Poland which would give Danzig to Germany...
...QUESTION OF THE HOUR-CAN DANZIG BE SAVED...
...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...