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...Postern. If forced back into her Triangle, Poland can expect direct aid only through her southeast postern, the valley of the Dniester down to Rumania and the Black Sea. Clearly seen last week was the reason why Poland, when Hitler carved Czecho-Slovakia, stood watchful guard over those Carpathian peaks which frown down on the Dniester Valley. When Hungarians rushed in and seized the Carpatho-Ukraine (eastern tip of Czecho-Slovakia), Poles embraced them at their new common border, for Hungary is traditionally Poland's friend. Much depends for Poland on Hungary's continued neutrality, for only by marching around...
...basis of France's and Turkey's policy. . . ." Giving Mr. Erkin scarcely time to get settled in Paris, Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet went to work on him to arrange how and when the Allies might use the Dardanelles in a push to support Poland through her southeast postern...
...mildew on them. I kept them in a bottle hanging by a string in my well." In Manhattan all one evening the dark cavern of Maiden Lane echoed with unaccustomed footsteps as one after another, clerks, stenographers, women in shawls, fathers carrying children clutching baptismal coins, trudged to the postern of the Federal Reserve Bank. "Gold?" asked two armed guards. A nod, and each figure passed in. Midnight was the deadline for the use of gold coins as legal money...
...best banking walls of Wall Street did not fall down last week before the long trumpet-blasts of Jesse Jones. But most of them opened their postern gates and let Mr. Jones come in with the money he was determined to inject into them...
...completely torn down. 2) The low but massive 10% General Tariff on manufactures built last February becomes a 20% wall topped by special duties on luxury articles which form castellations, buttresses and tariff towers as high as 33¼%. In any fortress there are of course postern gates through which the sly slip in. Thus U. S. typewriters, which have been subject to a 50% tariff and would normally be subject to the new general rate of 20%, will slip in through a special 10% postern...