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...foreigners have met Stalin, none has come to know him well. He has been interviewed by U. S. Newsmen Walter Duranty, Eugene Lyons, Roy Wilson Howard. Author Emil Ludwig and Professor Jerome Davis each once had long, serious sessions with him. Playwright George Bernard Shaw and his friend, Lady Astor, went on a lark to Moscow and saw him, too. "When are you going to stop killing people?" asked the impertinent Lady Astor. "When it is no longer necessary," answered Comrade Stalin...
First committee business was to pronounce "null & void" the agreement signed last March by Czech President Emil Hacha. which made Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate. The Committee can now conscript Czechs and Slovaks living in France and Great Britain into a Czechoslovak Legion headed by 45-year-old General Sergej Ingr, named Commander in Chief. Meanwhile, one of the Committee's problems will be to dissuade Czechs under German rule from futile revolts. Onetime Minister to the Court of St. James's Jan Masaryk warned his countrymen over the BBC that the present was not a propitious...
...article containing this piece of super-gloom was by Emil Helfferich, onetime "Maritime Adviser to the Führer" who became board chairman of the North German Lloyd and Hamburg American Lines when the Nazis lumped them under the same directorate in 1933. Herr Helfferich urged that the Government aid stagnant German export-import firms by permitting them to discharge superfluous employes (illegal under the Nazi job-protection laws); by letting them use "rent free" the Government warehouses in which German clogged exports are now piling up; and by directly providing "necessary capital to keep them afloat." If all this...
...really a march to the North Sea, evinced great sympathy, mobilized men on their eastern borders, but were accounted unlikely to fight. Answer to the first question seemed to reside in the iron-hard souls and bodies of the Finns. Their Commander in Chief, Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, struck their battle note as follows...
Foreign Minister Erkko and Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, president of the National Defense Council. Premier Cajander's Government received a unanimous vote of confidence and then, to make way for possible negotiations with Russia, resigned. Appointed as the new Premier was 50-year-old President of the Bank of Finland Risto Ryti. New Foreign Minister was V. A. Tanner, who took part in the recent...