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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tuesday, 4 p.m. Peremptorily Hitler commanded President Emil Hácha to come to Berlin from Prague for a conference. Accompanied by his daughter and Foreign Minister Frantisek Chvalkovsky, Dr. Hácha boarded a special train. Week's best example of how fast the Hitler machine was turning over: Dr. Hácha's train was one hour late in Berlin because of traffic congestion caused by troop trains already on their way to Bohemia...
...paper, however, the booty looks impressive: 1) about $80,000,000 in gold in the Czecho-Slovak National Bank; 2) about $200,000,000 in foreign exchange and foreign assets held abroad by individuals and corporations; 3) an agricultural surplus in Moravia and Bohemia sufficient to feed the Sudetenland, and in Slovakia sufficient to feed Vienna; 4) about 1,200 Czech airplanes (200 of them first-line), 500 tanks, some good heavy artillery; 5) increased industrial and arms capacity...
...there are many moldy spots in his prize package. About $37,000,000 of Czech gold is held in London, and since London refuses to recognize the new status of Czecho-Slovakia it cannot now be redeemed by the Germans. Not much more than 60% of the foreign exchange and as sets can be liquidated and returned to Germany. The chances are that from gold and foreign exchange the Reich will be able to realize not more than $200,000,000, or about enough to smooth out things for the Nazis for another six months. Even Austria yielded more money...
...Aggrandizer" Hitler's empire expanded week to within about 75 miles of the rich oil fields and wheat lands of the Kingdom of Rumania. Scarcely had the Aggrandizer got to Vienna on his swing around the new empire before the Rumanian Minister in London, Viorel Teleas, reported to Foreign Secretary Lord Hali fax that Germany had served Rumania an "economic ultimatum." Its gist: trade all Rumanian oil and wheat for German manufactured goods or expect the consequences...
...said Julián Besteiro, Foreign Minister of Loyalist Spain's National Defense Council, over Madrid's Union Radio last week. He was speaking directly and publicly to Burgos, 220 miles away, seat of the Government of Generalissimo Francisco Franco...