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...favorite work of Nazi organizers in foreign countries is drumming up young recruits for the German Army from families of German birth by paying the recruits' fare back to Hamburg. Nowhere is this more avidly practiced than in Germany's former colonies in Africa, for on their arrival in German barracks the recruits serve a double purpose. They swell the regimental ranks and become living symbols of the "lost territories" Germany so insistently demands...
...served throughout the remainder of the Russian civil war, and rose to be one of their best commanders. After it he went to Hamburg, where he organized the Communist storm troops. In 1927 he was in China, leading one group of the Red Armies against Chiang Kai-shek." Over exactly how the present International Column was organized and hurled into Spain just as Madrid's defenses were about to crumble, Communist Sympathizer Cox draws a veil, simply recording: "General Kleber was at the head of the first brigade of the International Column which arrived in Madrid on that fateful...
Exceptions are $150,000,000 of Dawes and Young Plan bonds, on which interest has been paid in part, and the obligations of a few German corporations, notably Hamburg-American and North German Lloyd issues. The only reason these corporate debts have been honored in full is that spunky U. S. bondholders methodically set out to attach the debtors' property in the U. S., including their ships when they docked. How much money could be squeezed out of Germany if the rest of the bondholders got tough is problematical. Britain's simple threat of appropriating German trade balances...
Three weeks ago Hitler's benign smile for Bernstein changed to a storm-dark cloud. Members of Hitler's secret police (Gestapo) collared Jew Bernstein secretly, flung him and two of his directors, also Jews, into a Hamburg jail. For a fortnight no journalist could learn the charges. Not till last week did Hitler, in the role of "Germany's Maritime Führer," come through with the statement that Jew Bernstein & colleagues were held "for violation of foreign exchange regulations," that a State trustee had been appointed to operate the Bernstein lines pending the trial...
...business because of red tape, Congress passed the Foreign Trade Zones Act in 1934, making a limited type of free port permissible for the first time in the highly protectionist U. S. Free ports, isolated free trade areas, were once prevalent in Europe, included such cities as Naples, Leghorn, Hamburg, Marseille. Today, sprinkled over the globe from Copenhagen to Curaçao, are some 40 free ports, walled off on the seaward side of customs barriers, where shippers can unload, store and tranship goods without red tape. Stapleton is well suited for such a purpose for there New York...