Word: interest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public debt: "Our national debt is after all an internal debt owed not only by the nation but to the nation. If our children have to pay interest on it they will pay that interest to themselves. A reasonable internal debt will not impoverish our children...
...meeting, the diplomatic representatives in Germany of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark went to the German Foreign Office to present their countries' replies to German State Secretary Baron Ernst von Weizsäcker, the united Oslo Powers front was broken. Sweden, Finland, Norway thanked Herr Hitler for his interest in their welfare, reaffirmed their neutrality, politely declined the Führer's offer. Denmark replied that the Danish Government would be happy to discuss the terms of a non-aggression treaty with the German Government...
...treaty, one of the most binding ever signed between two supposedly equal powers in Europe, provides that Germany and Italy will: 1) consult each other on all questions of "common interest or touching the general European situation"; 2) lend each other full "political and diplomatic support" to eliminate threats to either nation; 3) give each other military aid on "land, sea and air," in case either becomes involved in armed conflict; 4) set up permanent Axis commissions to deal with problems jointly...
...ceased to be the home of Soviets, of Five-Year Plans and collective farms, of propaganda campaigns and celebrations over the building of blast furnaces-it has become a potential enemy or ally for a gigantic struggle in the making. Imperceptibly, as the menace of war loomed bigger, outside interest in new ways of Russian life ebbed, interest in the Red Army grew...
...violating capitalism's unwritten Magna Charta: That money must have a right to go wherever it can make profits and avoid losses. In Britain, this right has now been suspended by Sir John Simon's dictum: "The export of capital . . . would be deleterious to the national interest...