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...Cuba should be forbidden to enter into any treaty with any other nation that would tend to impair her independence...
...Secretary of the Treasury will buy silver until this objective is attained-some 1,300,000,000 oz. or approximately twice the amount the U. S. now holds. However he will buy only if and when his own judgment tells him to. By law he is forbidden to pay more than 50? an oz. for silver in the U. S. on May 1. If he begins buying silver on a big scale he will have to buy much of it abroad and very likely pay for it in gold, thus cutting down the amount of silver to be bought...
...which does not is honest readable journalism. Unable to find out from their own throttled Press what is going on in their homeland. German citizens have turned more and more to foreign papers. Austrian and Czechoslovakian papers that delighted in the most outlandish anti-Nazi stories were forbidden entry but there was little that could be done about the Swiss Press. Fourteen years of international conferences at Geneva and Lausanne and a national temperament that makes the Swiss the world's finest head waiters, have given Swiss newspapers an unbeatable sense of discretion. In ever increasing numbers Germans continued...
...cell, without trial, out of public sight. Meanwhile, someone stole a bale of documents from the prosecuting attorney's office, later mailed back the rifled closet key. Finally, in 1930, Marthe went on a hunger strike to get her case into court, became a popular heroine. Forbidden to feed her forcibly in jail, police transferred her to a hospital. Then it took seven internes to hold her while they got the tube into her nostril. Left alone for a moment, the supposedly famished woman slid down a rope of sheets out the windows and went back to jail. Doctors...
...violating the embargo. Other Countries stepped into line. Chile, who had just received disturbing news that many of her own retired army officers were being recruited at handsome pay to serve in the Bolivian army, promptly agreed to join the embargo. Argentina righteously insisted that she has always forbidden transshipment of arms to the Chaco. Spain, Holland and Australia joined up. Italy announced that she would, if all the rest did. Czechoslovakia, in which is the great Skoda munitions factory, issued a confused statement that was generally regarded as an acceptance...