Word: reiche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attitude of this Government toward the German Government." Mr. Hull's words-"in this country, the right of freedom of speech is guaranteed by the Constitution to every citizen and is cherished as a part of the national heritage"-sounded like another veiled dig at the regimented Reich, but Germany let that pass and the incident was closed officially...
...holders of German bonds in settlement of past-due interest, SEC finally gave up. It allowed the registration to become effective but not without a bold attempt to supply on its own hook some of the missing information it deemed vital to investors, particularly a hint as to the Reich's "secret debt...
With magnificent effrontery, Germany maintains that it has no secret debt at all. It rationalizes this claim by the simple expedient of ignoring the incalculable amounts of short-term tax-anticipation certificates, "labor creation bills," and similar inflationary paper it has pumped into the credit system. According to the Reich, this paper is not debt until it becomes due, a contention which would have a counterpart in the U. S. if WPA workers were paid in baby Government Bonds which were excluded from the national debt until they matured. SEC pointed out that by the middle of 1935 this...
...ring meant what he said when he threatened to cut off the heads of Germans who fail to bring back into Germany cash or securities they hold abroad (TIME, Dec. 14), the Government was able to announce last week that over $100,000,000 has been restored to the Reich. One smart German not long ago had a set of automobile tools made of platinum, soiled these with grease and dirt, went motoring to Switzerland, locked the tools in a safe deposit vault. Up to last week he had not yet lost his head, but Nazi secret police were mercilessly...
Much more uneasy were British Labor leaders during the week at the behavior of the German Ambassador.±As though pomp-loving No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring had decided to attend the Coronation next May, Ambassador von Ribbentrop announced that the Reich is spending ?100,000 ($500,000) to enlarge its London Embassy by throwing three great houses into one. Last week this work was going at rush pace and in the House of Commons loud protests were made by Laborite M. P.'s because British workmen were not in on it. Over from Germany...