Word: diplo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particular would come to Rome and Berlin for help and guidance. Although a discreet silence was kept over what, if anything, Führer Hitler promised Khalid al Hud and vice versa, it was news simply that they had talked. When the German Foreign Office mouthpiece, the Deutsche Diplo-matische Politische Korrespondenz, announced on the heels of the meeting that the Axis would support the Arabs in eliminating British and French influence in the Near East, it was doubly news. For Britain it was alarming...
Thus 50,000,000 bushels of export wheat were left to be supplied by the other considerable exporter, Russia. The Soviet delegate signed the agreement but refused to limit exports to a definite figure. Diplo- mats and wheat experts were not perturbed. Private investigations and the unofficial admissions of Russian delegates show that this year Russia will not possibly be able to export more than 50,000,000 bushels. Reason: famine, or as Moscow correspondents find it wiser to say, "mal-nutrition...