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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time that Benito Mussolini's tens of thousands of soldiers were swaggering around the Spanish landscape during the recent civil war, Adolf Hitler's men modestly stayed in the background, playing a less conspicuous but no less effective role. II Duce sent not only airmen but infantrymen to help Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquer the stubborn Spanish Republicans. Spectacularly he took over the strategic island of Majorca as a bombing base, bombastically he bragged about the brave exploits of his legionnaires...
Countess. While the General's visit could be put down as an outcropping of the Roosevelt Good Neighbor policy, the motives behind Countess Ciano's visit were less apparent, perhaps more subtle. The clever, scheming, 32-year-old Edda is no mean politician and diplomat. She was one of the behind-the-scenes architects of the Rome-Berlin Axis. As the apple of Papa Benito's eye, pro-German Daughter Edda was largely instrumental in persuading II Duce to go the whole hog in his attachment to the German Führer...
...Adolf Hitler's day in that it had 18,778,491 fewer people and 50,545 fewer square miles in Europe. Aggrandizer Hitler's Germany does not to date possess Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany's African and Asiatic colonies, but since these accounted for less than 5% of pre-War Germany's export and import trade, they are not the major factors in the altered economic picture...
...immediate consumption (which omits money spent for housing construction) is still 10% below that of 1927. Moreover, Nazi economists themselves predict a decline of purchasing power for this year. The regime gains acquiescence from the majority because the industrial working class (approximately 40% of the population) has lost relatively less income than the upper, upper middle and lower middle classes-and with the unemployed now at work the class as a whole has gained. The farmers (approximately 21% of the population) receive about what they were getting per capita in 1927. Hence it can be argued that Naziism...
Welfare & Warfare. Yet, though Reich chemists are working night and day, Germany is less able today to support a long war than she was in 1914. With Lorraine gone the iron ore supply is not enough. The available soil, even including the Bohemian and what could be seized in Poland, Hungary and Rumania, is not sufficient to produce both fodder crops for the cattle and breadstuffs, sugar beets, potatoes, vegetables, flax and hemp for the 152,300,000 population of a Middle European empire. Intensive grain cultivation operations are now being set up in East Prussia, but most...