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Hitler's graft, according to Spivak, is more respectable: The Munich publishing firm of Franz Eher publishes the official Nazi organ, Volkischer Beobachter; most school textbooks; and Hitler's best seller, Mem Kampf. Even over Minister of Economics Dr. Hjalmar Schacht's desperate embargo on marks, Nazi leaders are suspected of having smuggled out of Germany millions of marks for a Nazi rainy...
...bargain was struck. France agreed not to demand the lifting of existing sanctions against Italy. Britain agreed not to press for an oil embargo-until after the French elections. The League of Nations promptly dropped the entire business with its most craven admission to date...
...issue, and he had eight specific instances of it between Dec. 30, and mid-March. The Suez Canal Co. reported that over 250 tons of Italian poison gas had passed the canal in the last four months. Italy must either agree to an immediate armistice or face an oil embargo, was the Eden ultimatum...
Considerably upset were these peace-lovers when Walter Millis, author of Road to War, text book of the Peace Bloc (TIME, Jan. 20), declared in a Scripps-Howard interview: "Extension of last year's arms embargo is about as far as we can proceed safely with a neutrality program at present. ... We must not forget that legislation may work in a quite unforeseeable fashion when an actual war arises. ... No man can say categorically how any neutrality program would function in the face of a real crisis such as a serious outbreak in Europe...
...Eden's task will be to steer a course through obstacles heaped in apparently inextricable confusion. Premier Laval's clever move in leaving the final [French] decision on the oil embargo to the Chamber of Deputies makes London doubtful of the possibility of proceeding in that direction at all because the French Premier coupled this concession with the notice that there would be a need for simultaneously declaring mobilization of several classes of reservists. No French Deputy in his senses, with an election impending, can vote for putting thousands of electors into uniform...