Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Desperate for ready cash* in the till-without which she cannot continue to import the raw materials necessary for her military machine-Germany month ago turned to systematic spoliation of her Jews. Unless her foreign trade position improves, she may next squeeze the vast holdings of the Catholic Church and perhaps the wealth of the upper middleclass...
...call off her trade war with Germany, he must have been disap pointed when the House of Commons unanimously advanced through its second reading a new Export Credits Bill, which raises from $250,000,000 to $375,000,000 the amount of obligations the Government can incur in "insuring foreign trade" and provides a special $50,000,000 "fighting fund" for subsidizing trade "valuable to Britain but not justifiable as sound commercial risks...
...worse in the German press (notably Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Alfred Duff Cooper), but last week Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Lord Baldwin's successor, decided to defend his old Cabinet colleague. Invited to deliver the main speech at the 50th anniversary dinner of London's Foreign Press Association, which includes in its membership German as well as U. S., French, Italian, Polish, Latin American correspondents, Mr. Chamberlain, in preparing his speech, inserted amidst paragraphs of amiable generalities one moderate sentence of criticism...
...time the guests-among them British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, the Ambassadors of Italy, France, Russia, Brazil-had begun to arrive, 50 chairs reserved for the missing Germans had been removed and table seatings rearranged. Informed of the boycott, Prime Minister Chamberlain was heard to exclaim: "How stupid!" But Mr. Chamberlain made no changes in his speech, got a big hand when he came to the "offending" sentence...
...England than the tall, handsome 60-year-old Marquess of Londonderry, who owns vast estates which make him one of Britain's wealthiest autocrats. In Germany Lord Londonderry has made personal friends with Führer Adolf Hitler. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, Minister for Aviation Hermann Goring, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...