Word: reichs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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British and French forces occupying the German Rhineland now amount to about 55,000 men. The Reich has objected, complained, remonstrated, reminded France and Britain that the Ambassadors' Conference of 1925 promised to reduce the armies...
...Hjalmar Schacht, President of the German Reichsbank, with a mind as clear-thinking as a calculating machine, is one of the constructive geniuses of post-War Germany. Born in 1877 he was a partner in the Darmstadter-und-National bank until 1923, worked with the Reich Currency Commission that set up the present gold mark standard in Germany, cooperated with the (Charles Gates) Dawes Committee on German reparations. He has been president of the Reichsbank since 1924. He is a stern man to deal with, imperturbable and ruthless in carrying out a fiscal program. Only seven weeks ago, when German...
...mention Dr. Koehler by name, but criticized the methods of his department sharply as follows: German budget estimates are unfortunately obscure in their method of stating transactions . . . lack clearness . . . [which is] both unnecessary and unfortunate. . . . The effect of all this procedure is to present the financial position of the Reich in a most artificial light. . . ." Having deplored these methods of German State accountancy, Mr Gilbert proceeded to point out expenditures in the German budget where he thought there ought to have been savings. He declared: "The budget estimates for 1927-28 carry total expenditures of 9,100,000,000 marks...
...Chaplin's Shoulder Arms was propaganda, his papers snarled. U. S. investors in Famous Players-Lasky and in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer did not like this. Their companies had joined a year ago to lend Ufa, Germany's largest cinema producer and controller of 130 theatres in the Reich, $4,000,000. The money was safe, being protected by a mortgage on the great Ufa theatre in Potsdamer Platz, Berlin. But such articles were not polite; they were invidious...
Smarter Germans realized that Ufa is practically bankrupt and may possibly go into receivership unless subvened by the Reich Government. Herr Hugenberg is very close to the men back of the present Government-the industrialists. Where the Deutsche Bank can not blatantly demand a subsidy, he can slyly suggest one. And he can repay Reichstag favors by his control of news channels-through his own newspapers, his news agency and, now, his films...