Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...above-average crops. All told, world wheat production for 1939 was estimated at 3,995,000,000 bushels, exclusive of Russia and China, world consumption at about 3,970,000,000 bushels, with 1939's carryover estimated at 1,217,000,000 bushels. One European reaction: a German-Rumanian barter deal by which Rumania agreed to deliver 50,000 carloads of wheat to far-from-friendly Germany and Italy, Germany to deliver arms to her frightened, potential victim, Rumania...
Died. Valentin ("Wonder Doctor") Zeileis, 65, world-publicized German healer, who treated thousands of ailing men and women by stroking them with an ''electric pencil" (a simple, high-frequency coil operated by an automobile battery); of a laboratory injury; in Gallspach, Germany...
Convinced that "there is a yawning gulf between what we believe to be true and what the average German believes to be true," Stephen King-Hall last fortnight sent copies of a news-letter written in German, to people inside Germany. Excerpts...
...Dear German reader: I am writing you because I want peace. . . . Can you defeat us in a war? It would have to be a short war, a lightning war, as even your experts admit. It is said that you will bomb London from the air. All right, so what? . . . I admit that you could kill about 300,000 civilians. Certainly, if you think that over, you will realize that that will make you lose the war. Germany's name will stink to high heaven from north pole to south pole and it would draw the Americans into...
...soon as copies of this letter reached Germany, Dr. Goebbels and his press blew up. German papers reprinted parts of the letter (leaving out most of the above quotations) and Dr. Goebbels devoted 3,800 words to a scorching front-page reply. Gist of it was that Commander King-Hall was working for Britain's newly founded propaganda ministry and that Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax had helped him to compose the letter. In Rome, Fascism's mouthpiece, Virginio Gayda, dutifully echoed this view, took huffy exception to the Commander's reflections on the fighting qualities...