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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the British Cabinet last July had secretly decided to offer Czecho-Slovakia on the altar of Appeasement, Viscount Runciman was sent to Prague as an "unofficial mediator" to arrange a "peaceful settlement" to the Sudeten German problem. Lord Runciman was eminently successful. Last week, on his way home from a world-circling vacation trip, he arrived in Montreal, Quebec, was questioned by newshawks on his availability as a mediator in the current Danzig dispute. Cracked light-hearted Lord Runciman: "You wouldn't want me to do that all over again...
...Italians will not leave at least until after the big victory parade in Madrid, many times postponed, now tentatively scheduled for May 19. The Condor Legion is expected shortly to return home by way of Vigo. But neither's going means the end of either German or Italian participation in Spanish affairs, and the fact that the Germans are leaving first does not indicate that they are abandoning Spain to their Italian partners...
...rush to catch up to western industrial powers, Germany has tried ever since 1871 to syncopate history. A patron saint among German economists is Friedrich List, who spent seven years in the U. S., learned to admire Alexander Hamilton's protectionist philosophy and went home to write his National System of Political Economy (1841). While Prussia was busy consolidating the German nation by successive wars with Denmark, Austria and France, no one paid much attention to List. But after 1871, he provided justification for what Aggrandizer Bismarck wanted...
...time of the World War the German steel cartel, or Stahlwerksverband, which included the Krupp armament works, was practically coterminous with the entire German steel industry. Fettered at home, competition was directed outward, against the industries of other nations; and throughout Germany the professors were quarreling over the concepts of State Socialism and State Capitalism, and wondering which was which. Meanwhile the Kaiser and court were fearful that the Socialists in the Reichstag (the Social Democratic Party had 112 seats out of 397 in 1912) might forget their "revisionist" doctrines and adopt the naked class war propounded by Karl Marx...
...military problems is that the next long war will be won by the nation with the greatest industrial potential behind the lines. The ability to mass-produce and to service guns, tanks, planes, ships and motors will, so the military theoreticians predict, be the crucial factor. Her lack of home metallurgical supplies would indicate that here, too, a warring Germany would be behind the eightball...