Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When effervescent Paul Reynaud became French Minister of Finance last November, France was fast slipping into an economic collapse that, following close after the Munich disaster, might have destroyed French democracy. Unemployment had increased 40,000 in a year (to 367,000) as production dropped to 25% below the 1930...
The fullest deposit vaults are in the big International Settlement and the French Concession at Shanghai. There are only guesses as to how much wealth (foreign and Chinese) is on deposit there, but if Japan, already forced to tighten her belt to carry on the Chinese "incident," could get her...
RUSSIA The Congress of the Supreme Council of Soviets meets in a vast gold & marble room of the Kremlin that once held the throne of the Tsar. This week it meets again. Reorganized under the Constitution of 1936, this is its third meeting in its present form, its eleventh since...
But if war comes, the strength, stability, efficiency of the Soviet Union's new institutions may count far more than her planes and tanks, more than her standing army of more than two million. It will be a test of the theories of Lenin as well as of the...
A man sitting quietly before his fire may be at peace, but he is not at rest. If he sits long enough: