Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world currency stabilization, this week's international deal set no ratio between the dollar, the franc, and the pound, left that to be developed by the course of trade. Any other country with a stabilization fund and a desire to end international currency fluctuation was welcome to join Secretary Morgenthau's party. As for the ordinary citizen of France, of Britain or of the U. S., this week's gold pact changed his monetary routine...
...tour did not discover the secret that France was about to devalue the franc with U. S. and British co-operation and that this would be followed by devaluation of the lira, Swiss franc, Dutch guilder, etc. Had Germany known what was coming, Dictator Hitler might have managed to join in and tell the German people that their mark was being devalued in an international concert of Economic Disarmament to which the Fatherland had been admitted with "equality" and "honor." Instead, according to Berlin observers, Herr Hitler felt last week that Dr. Schacht had permitted the Reich to be left...
...sent furtively to Spain and open rivalry that would flood the country with war material. . . . Dismay in London tonight." Amid feverish excitement British Broadcasting Co. put on the air that Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, as Acting Prime Minister, had just promised Labor Party leaders that Britain would join Russia in considering herself no longer bound by the Non-intervention Pact if the charges that it had been violated were proved. This last week was the high point of European tension-from which things fell like plummets...
...Rome and Berlin; Lord Plymouth undertook to inform the Portuguese Government; and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who had left Monte Carlo in a hurry, ate a placid lunch in Paris with socialist French Premier Leon Blum. The Frenchman calmed his British guest greatly by saying that Paris would not join Moscow in precipitant intervention to save Madrid but would continue with London to go through the motions of observing the Non-intervention Pact while unofficial and semi-official gunrunning to both Whites & Reds flourishes in Spain...
...told these mercenary troopers: "Do not become traitors to the Heimwehr spirit by offering any resistance to the Government." Easy-going Viennese called this Prince Starhemberg's "political abdication" and his easy-going Heimwehr submitted quietly to being dissolved, inasmuch as they were offered a chance to join up at similar pay as members of the new Dictator's own so-called Front Militia. These sweeping changes occupied Chancellor Schuschnigg the whole night. By dawn the Schuschnigg Clericals appeared to have such a stranglehold on Austria that Chancellor Schuschnigg dared to leave Vienna, hopped...