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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last remaining big diplomatic job before Britain and France complete their Peace Front (labeled "Encirclement" in Germany) is to sign up Soviet Russia. After weeks of bargaining in secret, both the British and Russians made public their positions, which proved to be not so far apart as pessimistic Britons had feared...
...aristocratic landowner from Pomerania in the backward German east, Bismarck cared little for the doctrines of economic freedom from feudal interference that were popular in free trade England. He made German capitalism an "assisted" capitalism, far more consciously purposeful than the economic systems of the west. Price-fixing and market-sharing cartels were encouraged; protection was granted to both agriculture and industry. The Prussian railroads were bought for the Prussian State, and the Social Democratic trade unions were won over to the paternalistic system partly because of the general pre-War prosperity and partly because Bismarck had introduced sickness, accident...
...might forget their "revisionist" doctrines and adopt the naked class war propounded by Karl Marx. Lacking internal flexibility and with the shaky Austro-Hungarian Empire messing up the possibilities of progress to the east, the German economic system had seemingly reached its limits of growth as far back as 1914, Germany's "assisted capitalism" had run head-on into Germany's poverty of resources-a circumstance which was to have an ominous parallel 25 years later...
...predicted here three weeks ago, Martha Tilton has left Benny Goodman's band to marry the manager, her place being taken by Louise Tobin, who when last heard at Nick's, was very good . . . Charlie Barnet's "Only A Rose" is the best disc he has done so far . . . The Nelson of "Wave-A-Stick Blues" is a clever ditty on the night-mares of a band-leader . . . First we were given Paul Whiteman and his orchestra, then Paul Whiteman and his Swing Wing, then Paul Whiteman and his Swing Strings. this week uncovers the Sax Sockette and the Bouncing...
...far this year the Crimson have rolled up 50 points to their opponents' 11. At the present time only the Chicago rugby club stands out as a formidable national rival, and negotiations are under way to arrange a meeting of these two teams at the New York World's Fair...