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...consent decree, being a court order, gives Sterling's officers a Government-underwritten legal out. Meanwhile, to rid the company of any pro-Nazi stigma, the directors last fortnight got Sterling a new president and chairman. (Messrs. Weiss and Diebold moved upstairs to head newly created Board committees.) The new chairman: Edward Sidney Rogers, international patent lawyer and adviser to the State Department. The new president: ex-Sterling treasurer, ex-U.S. Internal Revenue Bureau official, James Hill Jr. Mr. Rogers' knowledge of international law will be especially useful. For although Sterling is relatively safe...
...Rotary Clubs exist in 8 Latin American republics, but in most of them, with the possible exception of Chile and Colombia, Rotarians with Nazi sympathies are few. One good reason: Rotary International's bitter relations with Nazis in Europe, where Rotary Clubs have been generally suppressed. Suspect are some Rotary Clubs in Mexico, but Rotary harbors no Nazi hotspots in Cuba, Peru, Brazil. In Buenos Aires all but one pro-Nazi member resigned, on German Embassy orders after Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s famed democracy speech...
Between World Wars I & II, Britain was not a functioning democracy. Democracy is the most delicate balance of classes and their conflicting interests; appeasement was the symptom that this balance had become unbalanced. Among British Tories, appeasement took the form of pro-Nazi laissez faire. Among Laborites appeasement took the form of do-nothing pacifism. "The House of Lords," says Kraus, ". . . was . . . the stronghold of pro-Nazi sympathies-with the Labor Lords, in their pacifism, closely allied with Fascist-minded peers." Britons were afraid even to diagnose the disease of which the great General-Strike of 1926 and Munich were...
Missing Witness. One witness did not appear at the trial. In Bucaramanga, Colombia, on the night before he was to board a plane for the U.S. to testify, Arturo Regueros Peralta, a member of Colombia's Congress, publisher of the liberal newspaper El Comunero, was shot. The pro-Nazi section of Colombia's press said it was suicide. Dispatches from Colombia reported it was murder...
...U.S.S.R. recognizes pro-Nazi Government of Iraq...