Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week fought on, lone effective champion against seeping German Naziism whose cells are sprouting not only in Austria, but Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and the German minorities of Jugoslavia and Rumania. To his aid unintentionally came Germany's Adolf Hitler. Affronted by Dollfuss' slap last fortnight to Nazi Envoy Hans Frank. Hitler countered last week with a 1,000-mark ($272.50) visa charge for Germans visiting Austria. This was a $3,000,000 slap to Austria's tourist business. But it squelched patriotic Austrians who have wanted a Middle European combine (an-schluss), far more effectively than Chancellor...
...inflamed by months of bombast and race persecution, hems Germany in. The Geneva Disarmament Conference has been temporarily adjourned, stymied by Germany's insistence, bluntly transmitted through Delegate Rudolf Nadolyny on Germany's right to re-arm with tanks, planes, siege guns. Chancellor Hitler's "goodwill envoy" to Britain, Dr. Alfred Rosenberg has had to be hastily recalled before a storm of anti-Nazi demonstrations in London. Unofficial Jewish boycotting of German goods in Britain, France, the U. S. is wrecking foreign trade. There has been talk of reapplying Sanctions under the Versailles Treaty, the reoccupation...
...grand scale her Paris industrial fair in competition. Germany, having declined to participate, was last week reported thinking of sending over her chief propagandist, li'ttle Paul Joseph Goebbels (see p. 21). Chicago, where 50,000 Jews demonstrated against Adolf Hitler last week, made known that no German envoy would be received officially...
...President. For Guido Jung. Italian Minister of Finance whom Premier Mussolini had dispatched to Washington as his personal representative, President Roosevelt gave a large State dinner-but without Signor Jung who had been fog-bound in New York harbor. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht came as Adolf Hitler's special envoy. When Victor Ridder, one of the publishers of the New York Stoats-Zeitung, present as an official greeter, tried to press-muzzle him, the tall square-faced president of the Reichsbank resentfully exploded: "When you get through talking, I will talk." Because Italy paid her December War debt...
President Roosevelt made another deep bow to the ladies last week. He had already made Frances Perkins the country's first female Cabinet member by appointing her Madam Secretary of Labor. He had made Ruth Bryan Owen first U. S. woman envoy by appointing her Madam Minister to Denmark. Now, to be the first Madam Director of the Mint he chose, and the Senate confirmed. Nellie Tayloe Ross, hardy Wyoming plains-woman who in 1925 had the distinction of being first U. S. woman Governor when she filled the vacancy left by her deceased husband. Madam Director Ross...