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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duce's word for it that Italian help to Generalissimo Franco would be reduced, not increased. Three months ago a token withdrawal of 10,000 Italian troops from Spain took place. On that showing Mr. Chamberlain implemented an Anglo-Italian treaty. Although Dictator Mussolini was expected to demand of the Prime Minister at Rome next week (see p. 21) that Britain grant belligerent rights to Rebel Spain, from London last week came hints that Mr. Chamberlain, for his part, would plead with Il Duce at least to stop boasting about Italy's part in the Spanish Civil...
...hope of every national person that a showdown between these opposing forces can be avoided that appeasement, granted by the democracies to the totalitarian states with the demand of a quid pro quo, can reestablish international order. The weapons for this accomplishment are economic. "There are many methods short of war, but stronger and more effective than words, of bringing home to aggressor governments the aggregate sentiments of our own people," the President significantly said Wednesday...
...much that opinion has changed since the State Department last year apologized for Mayor LaGuardia's onslaught on the Führer as a "gangster," Germany's Foreign Office last week sent bland, blond Charge d'Affaires Thomsen to the State Department with a "sharply worded" demand for another apology...
...Ukrainian "liberation movement" might find easy conquests in Poland and Rumania, but undoubtedly it will have tough going in Russia. Not only has Dictator Stalin a better army than Poland or Rumania, but long ago he took pains to silence if not kill all Ukrainians inclined to demand "extra rights." As one of "Tsar" Vladimir's entourage last week pungently expressed it: "This is all very well, but what will Mr. Stalin...
...General Motors Corp. told a Senate committee that "America's production plant is obsolete," that industry should be stimulated to substitute new machines for old, thus increase production and lower prices (TIME, Dec. 19). But outright expansion, rather than improvement, is industry's usual objective. When consumer demand rises, new plants are built to increase production; then recession nips demand and the new plants are not needed. In the case of the Irvin Works, Big Steel was operating at around 90% of capacity when it broke ground in May 1937; last week steel production was dawdling...