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...March 12 the Optimist, a tiny German freighter of only 318 tons, warped into a quay at Rotterdam from Hamburg. Dutch stevedores hustling aboard some additional cargo got a good look at the cargo already aboard : cases of rifles, cart ridges, hand grenades, several rolls of barbed wire and a camp forge. After two weeks in port, the Optimist was joined by a party of ten German Nazis and a small dark man with a little chin beard whom they called alternately Schaefer and "der kleine Schwartze." On March 27 the Optimist cleared for the Canary Islands off the west...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Again Agadir? | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

French spies in Holland quickly filled in additional details. Three days before the Optimist sailed, another German freighter of almost the same size, the Jupiter, docked at Rotterdam and began taking on cargo for West Africa too. The ships and their Nazi crews were on their way to Ifni, a small Spanish bite in the Atlantic bulge of French Morocco, to run guns to the 150,000 Moorish tribesmen, followers of the "Blue Sultan" Merebbi Rebbo Mehammedan, who fled there before advancing French troops (TIME, March 26), and to start again France's painful Moroccan wars just after final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Again Agadir? | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

...industry has gone far enough and that the field should once more be left to free competition. While this sentiment expresses in general a growing conviction that the administration cannot much longer occupy a middle position on all-important questions of governmental control, still Mr. Ely must be an optimist indeed to believe that "free" competition will not again land us in the same slough as the one from which we are just beginning to emerge. MIDAS...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 4/14/1934 | See Source »

...optimist, Klim has expressed conviction that the world's next important war, no matter how it starts, will end up as a concerted assault by the Capitalist Powers on the Soviet Union. For this reason he threw his whole influence behind a successful move to draft the Five-Year Plan in such fashion that Russia would achieve self-sufficiency first in the realm of munitions and armaments. As Captain Liddell Hart points out, Soviet battle planes-on which Klim pins so much hope -are of 100% Soviet manufacture and the whole effort of the Red War Office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-JAPAN: The Word Is Out | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

...insulted. Splashed on fences, a slogan has appeared: NEGRO, GET YOUR WHITE WOMAN! WE ARE EQUAL NOW. Immediate result was the organization last week of a new secret society, headed by white Cubans and U. S. residents of Cuba, who took the name Ku Klux Klan Kubano.* ¶ No optimist last week was Cuba's Secretary of the Treasury Colonel Manuel Despaigne. With expenses mounting and no taxes collected, he cried: "Financial assistance from the United States is some-thing utterly impossible! Furthermore I do not know where we are going to get any money unless we discover some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Grau's Week | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

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