Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presidential election to replace Dr. Eduard Benes, now in England, is expected this week. Almost certain to be elected, observers agree, is the present Foreign Minister, Dr. Frantisek Chvalkovsky. The Slovaks have demanded that the new President must be one who always actively opposed the pro-French, pro-British foreign policies of the now discredited Dr. Benes. Minister Chvalkovsky, who served as Minister to Germany and Italy during the past eleven years, has earned the confidence of the Nazi and Fascist Governments, qualifies on this score...
Finland's Foreign Minister, Dr. Rudolf Holsti, resigned last week. Official reason: bad health, low pay. Real reason : pressure from Germany because Dr. Holsti, Finnish delegate to the League of Nations, reportedly made uncomplimentary remarks about Führer Adolf Hitler. Baltic observers concluded that Finland, like dismembered Czechoslovakia, can no longer afford to have outspoken anti-Nazis in its Government...
...Germany appeals for foreign missions are not encouraged. The Nazi Government has little sympathy with evangelical Christianity, none at all with enterprises which take money out of the Reich. Last week it became known that in South Africa, consequently, German missionaries go after customers as well as converts...
...Berlin Mission Society (Protestant) has founded a trading company, South African Motors, Import and Industries, Ltd., made a deal with the Government. Its missionaries sell German goods abroad. The Reich treasury gets most of the foreign exchange thus obtained, the missions get a slight commission...
...Emporia Gazette is noted for editorial comment. Greenwich Time soon got a reputation for guessing what was going to happen next in foreign affairs. For Wythe Williams, before leaving Europe, had organized his own private foreign news service to an extent never before attempted by a paper in Greenwich or any other U. S. suburb. Equipped with his own hunches and reports from well-placed tipsters, Editor Williams made quite a local name for himself as a prognosticator in world politics. His major prediction was that Germany would precipitate a world war in the spring or summer of 1938 over...