Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Talk. In London, presumably to attend an international whaling conference, was Dr. Helmuth Wohlthat, Adolf Hitler's star traveling salesman. He had been to Spain in early summer, and last spring he had signed in Rumania a sensationally successful trade agreement which all but made Rumania an economic dependency of the Third Reich. Forty-four-year-old Dr. Wohlthat was a wanderlusty young man who sought his fortune in the U. S. and Mexico, married a German girl living in Philadelphia, was recalled to Germany in 1933 by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, the German financial wizard who was then beginning...
Obviously a mere whaling conference was small-time stuff for such a big-time Nazi. While in London he sought out Robert Spear Hudson, British Government economic expert and Secretary for Overseas Trade. Not a member of the Cabinet, Mr. Hudson nevertheless is one of His Majesty's Ministers. He led a "revolt"' of junior ministers last winter against the Cabinet's dilatory rearmament policy and, although he supported Mr. Chamberlain's appeasement policy last year, it was Mr. Hudson who later dramatically warned Germany that unless the Reich gave up its trading methods, Britain would...
...technique of getting his way in Europe is the use of "military diplomacy." At the psychological moment troops will be massed at weak frontiers, conferences of Generals will be held, inspired stories will be printed telling of fleets of German planes ready to take off and blast Paris and London to bits with newly invented high-pressure bombs. Last week British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, announcing the date of Parliament's adjournment for a three months' vacation, boasted that "there is every indication that Britain's newly regained power is restoring confidence to Europe." In showing...
...Still appearing in London newspapers' want-ad columns, however, are advertisements of homes in "safe areas," installed with A. R. P. (Air Raid Precautions) devices. Banks, insurance companies and business concerns continued to buy houses in the country for emergency offices. Latest to arrange for, although not to buy, a country place for its staff and records is Lloyd's, insurance brokers...
...Poles were pleased with this outward demonstration of British-Polish military solidarity, which was far more understandable, if not more important, than a temporary breakdown at London of negotiations for a British military loan to Poland. There, Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, Economic Adviser to the British Government, insisted that the Poles spend the projected $25,000,000 loan in Britain. Head of the Polish Finance Commission Colonel Adam Koc was equally insistent that no strings be attached to the loan, and once last week he threatened to leave London in a huff. At week's end there was talk...