Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eggs are $100 a dozen Said our German cousin Coffee is $1.50 a pound All the way around...
Unsympathetic. Nor were Comrade Molotov's statements on general policy lost on his hearers. He put to rest any thought that the Soviet Union was thinking of lining up with Germany, although he saw no harm in continuing German-Russian trade relations. The Soviet Union, the Commissar said, "can under no circumstances be suspected of any sympathy whatsoever for aggressors...
Looking elsewhere throughout the world, Comrade Molotov called President Roosevelt's recent note to Adolf Hitler asking for a ten-year peace a "proposal permeated with a peace-loving spirit." The recently signed German-Italian treaty he called an "offensive alliance." He warned Japan to stop "provocative violations of the frontiers of the U. S. S. R. and the Mongolian People's Republic" in the Far East. As for China, Russia would always support "nations which have become victims of aggression and are fighting for the independence of their countries...
...liner St. Louis left Hamburg one Sunday last month. Out into the grey waste of the Atlantic it carried its dismal cargo: 937 German-Jewish refugees bound for Cuba. The ten-year-old, oil-burning, 16,732-ton ship was scheduled to discharge its miserable company at Havana, proceed to New York to pick up passengers for a gay June cruise to the West Indies. The refugees were to remain in Cuba until they could enter the U. S. They were a typical group of the world's newest homeless wanderers: men in sports clothes who had paid...
...Nazi Book News of April 1939 grumbled: "a plethora of translations," "a flood of historical novels, more than 100 in 1938, many of them 1) bad, 2) unnecessary, 3) irrelevant, 4) mediocre, 5) 'more or less average." He found too "an extraordinary number of books" in which non-German personalities were stressed, Roman Generals, Russian composers, French painters. Other shortcomings : "No new peasant novels, soldier novels, glorification-of-the-Führer novels, sport novels, strength-through-joy novels, no conquest-of-unemployment novels, no good race, blood and soil novels, no go jd poetry." Long ago, Hitler told...