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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York County's sleuthing young District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey last week acted on a tip from no less a master of sleuthing than Author E. (for Edward) Phillips Oppenheim. Sunning his shrewd old head in Monte Carlo, Author Oppenheim had dispatched a cable to District Attorney Dewey. Result was the apprehension of a gentleman who in life is as suave and distinguished as any of Oppenheim's international intriguers...
There were other, less mystical, reasons why Herr Hitler grabbed the Almighty's mantle so precipitately last week. In one fundamental sense it was a simple bank-robbing act. Germany, which must buy important raw materials outside her borders, needs real money. Germany reports about $29,000,000 in gold left (some esti mates: as high as $200,000,000). Czecho slovakia, an exporting country, had $80,000,000 in gold in its national bank, enough to offset Germany's adverse trade balance for a few months, and about two and a half times that much in foreign...
...took less than 48 hours last week to send all these facts and factors over the dam. The people who own most in the world are supposed to know a good deal about what goes on in it. Obviously Herr Hitler caught them napping, for in Berne, Amsterdam, London, New York, markets fell last week and kept falling as big investors hastily unloaded in something very like a panic. If they had not known what Chancellor Hitler was going to do last week until he actually did it, how could they tell what he was going to do next...
Stop Hitler! When the Germans successively won back the Saar, remilitarized the Rhine, took Austria and the Sudetenland, they always took pains to make out some sort of a case for themselves which an ever diminishing group of friends in the outside world was more or less willing to accept. Last week the treaty-breaking, lie-telling German Dictator had few friends left anywhere outside his and Italy's borders and along with the last shreds of his nation's honor he threw away all pretense of being anything but a Conqueror. Instead of trying to think...
Sweden's Government debated long over the proffered gift, then decided to thank the General just the same but not accept his offer. Whereupon General Goring became so enraged that the only thing that averted a complete diplomatic break was a hasty trip to Berlin by no less a person than King Gustav V, who pinned on Herr Göring's bulging chest the highest Swedish military honor-the Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword...