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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than last year. New ships: four cruisers, one aircraft carrier, nine destroyers, three submarines, many a small craft. France- The Doumergue Government pushed construction on a man o' war, two submarines, and a destroyer for which it had yet to obtain Parliamentary consent, then asked Parliament to authorize a three billion franc ($197,400,000) bond issue to pay for additional armaments. Navy: 595,000,000 francs ($39,151,000). Air: 980,000,000 francs ($64,484,000) which will be spent for "quality rather than quantity" in fighting planes. Explained the Foreign Office: "Germany is rearming." Germany...
...made the sort of speech that five years ago would not have been news but is today. "Our freedom did not drop down like manna from heaven," cried the Conservative leader. "It has been fought for from the beginning, and the blood of men has been shed to obtain it. ... This freedom is mirrored for us and crystallized in Parliament. . . . "Democracy is the most difficult form of government because it requires the participation of all the people in the country. . . . The wheels may be creaking, but are you sure the wheels of the coach of state are not creaking...
...have a great library here in the building which makes it possible to obtain information on almost any man in the United States. Our files contain the name of every person mentioned in the newspapers for the last twenty-five years. The clippings in which they are mentioned are also filed with the name, and thus we can get the low-down on almost anybody in a very few minutes...
...days that followed, Paris had a chance to bind up its wounds. Accurate figures on casualties were almost impossible to obtain. Checking the official figures against their own careful survey of all Paris hospitals, U. S. news agencies agreed that 16 people had been killed, about 400 seriously wounded. Finally French officials admitted 21 dead, 2,400 seriously wounded...
...Then they asked the Scrap Iron Trust for 10,000 rubles for the expedition. The Trust passed them on to Constantine Maltsev, Assistant Commissar for Education. He, for one, did not bite, did not laugh. Instead he called the OGPU. One editor, arrested on a charge of trying to obtain money under false pretenses, was quickly released. But when the Crocodile set about telling the story of its hoax, the Soviet high command firmly shushed...