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...before, Adolf Hitler had announced the secret summoning of his war Reichstag. Now it awaited his first speech since before the invasion of the Low Countries, tried to guess his verdict: total war against Britain or negotiations for peace. Massed in the balcony were more than 100 of the Reich's generals and admirals, sparkling with decorations and gold braid (see p. 25). In the front row of the diplomatic box sat Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano...
...goods under prices quoted by U. S. firms, but promised forfeits of from 10% to 40% on the purchase price if the goods were not delivered by October or November. Though not payable in cash, the forfeits would be settled by establishing Reichsmark credits applicable on purchases from the Reich. Meanwhile, Nazi trade efforts were expedited by batches of German propaganda material, dyes and machine parts sent by international parcel post, via Russia and Japan and in many cases delivered by U. S. ships...
Last week it was apparent that the tough talk had started well ahead of schedule. It was not very impressive to begin with. Fortnight ago Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop launched an attack on the Monroe Doctrine on the eve of the Havana Conference (TIME, July 15). Last week Secretary of State Cordell Hull, before setting out for Havana with eight trade, monetary, agricultural and political experts, slapped back at another attempt to make trouble. From Costa Rica, Guatemala and Nicaragua came reports that Dr. Otto Reinebeck, German Minister to the Central American Republics, had circulated a note...
...Throne for his son, the Comte de Paris. Both Italy and Germany warned that the ''political bill of reckoning" had not yet been paid, would be dictated by "historic realism." France, said the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, "will not find her place on an equal basis with the Reich...
...foreign press assembled in the gaudy scarlet-gilt-ivory conference room of the Propaganda Ministry and to the radio world at large, Rosenberg proclaimed a Nazi-dominated "Community of Fate" embracing Sweden, Norway and Denmark. "Fate," he declared, "so willed it that the German Reich has taken under its protection the entire territory from which once the German peoples migrated." Urging the Scandinavian countries, two of which are already Nazi-occupied, to appreciate the honor of German domination, he continued: "A small nation does not violate its honor when it places itself under the protection of a larger nation...