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...Bucharest the German Legation entertained Foreign Minister Grigore Gafencu and other prominent Rumanians with a newsreel of the conquest of Norway, a sequel to the Nazis' film of the blasting of Poland plugged so diligently around the neutral circuit this winter. Two days earlier the Government had nipped what it said was a plot to seize all the country's airfields, had rounded up 60 foreign "tourists"-British as well as German-in the Ploesti oil-field region. King Carol held another secret confab with Yugoslavia's regent, Prince Paul...
First U. S. Savings Bonds were sold by Secretary Morgenthau to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 for $18.75 apiece, before floodlights and newsreel cameras. They will be worth $25 each ten years from purchase date (which amounts to principal plus interest at 2.9% semiannually). With a popularity like that of annuities, baby bonds (units: $25 to $1,000 maturity value) in less than three years became the most widely held security in the world. Their owners: more than 2,300,000 U. S. citizens, corporations, trusts, etc., who have lent the U. S. Government...
...conclusion that the battleship boys are playing on current fears to puff out their chests like Aesop's frog who burst trying to look like a bull. Our navy is now adequate for defense, and even Admiral Taussig doesn't claim it should be anything else. Americans love newsreel shots of new battleships, but Ann Sheridan is just as photogenic and not nearly so expensive...
...French Talking Films Committee presents today at 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, and 9 o'clock in the Geographical Institute "Double Crime Sur La Ligne Maginot" and a French Movietone newsreel of "Le Quatorze Juillet...
...Newsreel Note. Out of the Cabinet altogether went Lord Chatfield, Minister for Coordination of Defense, thereby reducing the inner War Cabinet from nine men to eight. Instead of giving First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill this chair to put his feet on, parsimonious Neville Chamberlain scrapped the Ministry and named kewpish Mr. Churchill Chairman of the Committee of Service Ministers (Air Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare, War Secretary Oliver Stanley, Winston himself). Since the committee can only make recommendations to the Cabinet, the Prime Minister had made Mr. Churchill look more powerful to the public without giving him more power...