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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Russia, in popular estimation, remained during 1938 the world's No. 1 Godless State. Russia's policy has long been to tolerate religion, and even to maintain, for propaganda purposes, certain puppet churchmen, so long as it appeared that there were people who wished the church's ministrations. To many Christians there has been some encouragement in the fact that Russia's League of Militant Godless, whose work the Government approves, has continued to fare not very well. Last spring the Government jailed a good many Orthodox prelates in what was heralded as a new drive...
...already jumped on nine other "thrift plans" this year, but mostly for minor offenses in their business of selling their shares on the installment plan. Charges in Fidelity's case are more grave: That Fidelity obtained money and property by means of untrue statements, had failed to maintain required reserves against its $276,000,000 in outstanding certificates, had resorted to interfund transfers to write up the book value of securities by "well over $1,000,000," had used investors' funds for the benefit of trie officers and directors of the company...
Premier Edouard Daladier denounced the strike as "political," a test not only of his administration but of the French democracy's ability to withstand minority pressure in a crisis. He believed he could beat the strike and maintain his Government's prestige if he could maintain the public services, so he invoked a statute on the books since July and militarized all transport, communications, war industries and the Government service. He also served notice that workers who obeyed Leon Jouhaux's orders to report for work in military plants and then "fold arms" would be jailed...
...utterances, insisted that his acceptance of the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle* "does not . . . involve any sympathy on my part with Naziism." To prove it, he authorized a warmly pro-Jewish statement. Excerpts: "I believe that the United States cannot fail at this time to maintain its traditional role as a haven for the oppressed. . . . Because of their special adaptability . . . [the Jews] would offer to the business of this country a new impetus at a time like this, when it is badly needed. ... I am confident that the time is near when there will...
...government realizes that, should the Italian peninsula and Tunisia be joined under the same rule, Mussolini would obtain strategic control over the Mediterranean. And the dominance of this sea by any single nation would imperil the "drang nach Osten." Recent events have only emphasized the importance to Germany of maintaining the divided control there is at present; for the Reich, barred by a hostile Rumania from access to the Black Sea, is now trying to make Yugoslavia her vassal and Mediterranean outlet. German interests have thus come into conflict with the Italian dream of a "Mare Nostrum"; and a direct...