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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...toward economic recovery and political stability. Fixed elections and Sphinxlike silence on controversial problems kept him in power. In foreign policy he snuggled close to Benito Mussolini, managed to keep on passably good terms with Yugoslavia and Rumania, but detested Eduard Benes, the Czech Foreign Minister, who tried to get his scalp in the 1925 French banknote forgery scandal involving the Count's close associates. Count Bethlen's great dream was a bloc of "revisionist" States to overturn the Versailles and Trianon settlements...
...system of subsidized barter might have worked satisfactorily enough, but the Nazis themselves were slow to deliver finished goods in return for foodstuffs and raw materials, and they frequently demoralized world markets for their suppliers by reselling coffee, tobacco, cotton, etc., at knock-down prices in order to get needed foreign exchange...
...dolomite (lime and magnesia oxide), are primed with plate scrap and limestone, then charged with pig iron, scrap and ore, and heated. Gas expelled from the limestone stirs the mixture, helps form the slag. A furnaceman spoons out samples, cools them to test quality, then adjusts the heat to get just the quality he wants. After about twelve hours the furnace is tapped, the steel ladled off. The Bessemer process is three times faster than the open-hearth, and correspondingly cheaper; but since the quality of the steel in a Bessemer "heat" must be judged by fallible human eyes...
Finding its broadcasts getting nothing more than attentive laughter in Britain, the Nazi radio last month decided to provide more English news, jokes, gems from the London Times. London newspaper stories were hurriedly translated by German journalists in London, telephoned to Berlin, retranslated into more Munchausen English and waved back to Britain twelve hours later. When the laughter continued, the Propaganda Ministry grudgingly hired an Englishman, a member of Sir Oswald Mosley's Fascist Blackshirts, at 1,000 marks ($400) a month to do the job the British way. Attempting to get across...
Last week, inaugurating a recorded series of NEC get-acquainted interviews with Cabinet members on the workings of their departments, the voice of the President spoke over 150 local U. S. radio stations, and it left no doubt as to what the President's favorite publicity medium is. From one of the sturdiest planks in George Washington's parting platform ("In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion be enlightened") the President dived overboard with his biggest splash for radio. Said...