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...Several Gestapo attempts to return him to Germany were foiled by Rumanian police. Last week, according to D.N.B., Beck was arrested by Iron Guard and Gestapo agents as he tried to escape "disguised as an Englishman." In his pocket was a British diplomatic passport and 2,000,000 lei...
...After weeks of dickering, Rumania signed a new trade agreement with Germany which: 1) enhanced the value of the aski mark by nearly one-fourth as compared to the Rumanian lei, thereby giving Germany more for her money; 2) increased the yearly sale of Rumanian oil to Germany from 1,200,000 tons to 1,820,000-about 50% above pre-war levels but not enough to provide more than one-third of Germany's peacetime needs, let alone war needs. Rumor had it that to obtain these advantageous terms Hitler guaranteed Rumanian boundaries. Whether the guarantee will...
...under way, set New York society columnists to twittering over the new nightspots and their patrons. Most twittery spot: the new Hawaiian Maisonette of the swank St. Regis Hotel. Most twittered-of socialites: Tobacco Millionheiress Doris Duke and her husband James Henry Roberts Cromwell, who was photographed in a lei, hula-hulaing with bare-foot Hawaiian...
...Schlesinger, friend of the late great Refugee Worker Dr. Fridtjof Nansen. It consists, in its simplest terms, of an international corporation for trading in refugees. Capital for this company, tentatively called "International Resettlement Co.," would take the form of billions of dollars of blocked German marks, Hungarian pengos, Rumanian lei, etc., now owed refugees and foreign investors who cannot collect them outside the countries in question. The corporation would contract to evacuate a batch of refugees, offering the emigrating country a sizable sum in blocked currency which would be spent within that country for industrial and capital goods which...
...thus have in their records canceled checks showing that they do not deal with Nazi Germany. The American dollars are then forwarded from London to Germany thus allowing the Nazi regime to build up its foreign exchange balance. Meanwhile, Germany buys the Rumanian furs, paying for them in lei that were placed to its credit in Rumania as a result of barter arrange- ments. ... As the Rumanian money has little value in the foreign exchange marts, the German Government gains materially by an exchange of this money for American exchange...