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...expense of industrial development; 2) preferential rights to Germany on all surpluses. Incidental demands included a 20% increase in the official exchange value of the reichmark in terms of dinars, added quotas of corn, copper and lead to replace the wheat Yugoslavia cannot deliver because of a disastrous harvest, and 600,000 tons of iron ore a year to bring the German supply up to the pre-air-raid level. Promised reward: an economic role in the New Order. The Yugoslav Government finally signed a watered-down economic agreement with the Reich and Foreign Minister Dr. Aleksandar Cincar-Markovitch announced...
...France. The Indo-Chinese were willing to be liberated. The French were at last reaping the harvest of the particular brand of civilization they had sown in Indo-China. By exploiting 23,000,000 natives, 28,000 Frenchmen had arranged for themselves an attractive existence, including the extraction of a tidy income from 10,000 tons of opium sold annually to the population under Government license. They had built European towns with broad, immaculate avenues, spacious buildings, beautiful squares adorned with statues of the French great. Beyond the exclusive French quarter, in utmost squalor and poverty, lived the native population...
...zinc. But from the concentrated cultivation of rice and rubber and the sale to the natives of manufactured goods made in France, more than three billion francs went to France from Indo-China every year. The native standard of living remained one of the lowest in the world. The harvest of this policy was hate. A recent straw vote taken in a native high school revealed that, of 300 boys, only one preferred French to Japanese rule...
...fire of 1871 let loose Chicago's underworld for a brazen orgy of pillage, "the richest harvest of loot that had ever fallen to the lot of American criminals." Three hundred and fifty prisoners were freed from the flaming jail, promptly broke into a jewelry store. Through the glare scurried whores, murderers, thieves, all "scolding, stealing, fighting; laughing at the beautiful and splendid crash of walls and falling roofs...
This week, in a grim, confusing world, U. S. publishers turned out some 40 new books of fiction-sizable harvest of a crop that will reach some 1,400 for the full year...