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...thousands besieged Spanish consulates in France for visas, numbers of Europe's homeless royalty hurried across the Franco-Spanish border before the Nazi invader. Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg and members of her family were among early arrivals, followed by Her Highness the Maharanee of Kapurthala. Already an exile, Polish Pianist Stanislao Nielziesld sought new refuge in Spain, as did famed Parisian Jeweler Pierre C. Cartier. Adrien Thierry, French Ambassador to Argentina, was more fortunate than French Leftist leaders who were reported to have found both Spanish and Swiss borders closed to them. (But an Italian broadcast said onetime...
Allowing for full use of Czech, Polish, Austrian and Luxembourg steel works, the Nazis could produce perhaps 35 million tons of steel a year, almost a quarter of the world's capacity (perhaps 30% of the world's capacity including France), against Britain's 10%. When the war began Britain was still taking 30% of her machine-tool imports from Germany. British buying in the U. S. (producer of half the world's steel) could overcome this discrepancy if there were time. But halfhearted Allied approximations of totalitarian economic control, and futile attempts to preserve empire...
...fulfill the pledges he now gave them: "Italy does not intend to bring other people into the conflict. Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and Egypt will take notice. . . ." The British Ministry of Information commented: "The Axis Powers have been prodigal of such assurances in the pastas Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg have learned to their...
...Paris, a court seized 100 shares of Suez Canal Company stock owned by crafty Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels-who had been regularly receiving interest through the Banque Generate du Luxembourg...
...firm are subordinated to those of the industry as a whole, be reconciled with the community's interest in the utmost speed of technical progress?" This question acquired a new urgency last week. For Britain has been importing 200,000 tons of steel a month from Belgium and Luxembourg; and last week, with Luxembourg gone and Belgium going, England (and France) began rushing tonnage orders to the U. S. for steel products. If Britain is using precious foreign exchange while disemploying her own most efficient mill in order to protect the cartel's price structure, Herbert Morrison will...