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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appalling state of Quebec's finances. Showing that the provincial public debt, having been $150,000,000 when the Union Nationale took over, was now at least $286,000,000, they made no specific charges but cleverly asked: "Where has it gone?" The Duplessis campaign promises began to get vague. Then the Federal Government came out against him: the three Quebec Liberals in the King Cabinet threatened to resign if he won, and spectacular Minister of Justice Ernest Lapointe, who might be Canada's Prime Minister if he were British, campaigned against him with epigrams...
Soviet Russia's first move, according to the best information correspondents could get, would not be to seize Bessarabia but to give Bulgaria strong support to demand from Rumania the return of Dobruja. Dobruja is a province that Bulgaria lost to Rumania in 1913. Bulgaria has undertaken to barter almost her whole exportable surplus of raw materials to Germany, thus is economically to a great extent under Adolf Hitler's thumb, and the Balkans feared that Russia and Germany would try a "pressure pincers" on Rumania. King Carol, alarmed, conferred with Rumanian political leaders of all parties...
...prosecuting the war. Another money squeeze is the Volkswagon subscription. Since the summer of 1938 the organization created to manufacture Adolf Hitler's famed Volkswagon or "People's Car" has been collecting $2.00 per week from 180,000 German instalment buyers, promising they will all get delivery by 1942, but the People's Car Works may have been converted to make munitions. Thus far the Führer has not thought it worth-while to risk further overstraining of the German financial structure by trying to float a war loan...
...power, he was appointed Ambassador in Berlin. There he spent four incredibly difficult years, so distinguished himself in crisis after crisis that the Nazis, smarting under his smartness, were glad to hear of his transfer back to Paris (as Ambassador) in February 1937. And the French were delighted to get...
...inch guns at 25,000 yards, without fear of the German's eleven-inch reply. Britain's next best bet would be heavy cruisers of the "London" class, but Deutschland could penetrate a "London's" armor at 15,000 yards, whereas "London" would have to get within 8,000 yards to use her eight-inchers effectively...