Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inflated profits of private armament firms exist only in the imaginations of ill-advised critics. The Vickers group has no part in any international armaments ring. On the contrary there is the keenest competition to secure orders from any country which is strengthening its defenses and has not the necessary manufacturing resources available. . . . Munitions manufacturers should rather be considered as rendering a patriotic service so long as our products are necessary for the defense of the Empire...
...toward the railway station. At the station Hitler's Youths amused themselves by dashing among the children and snatching the rest of their banners. Bishop Bares of the Catholic Diocese of Berlin and Brandenburg sent smoking protests to Chancellor Hitler, to Prussia's Premier Hermann Göring and to Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick...
...Soviet Russia, against France, Britain and the U. S. The apartment of a Mlle. Baila Englard was raided. It was unoccupied but reported to be full of secret drawers, sliding panels and lists of people whose names were not divulged. French agents announced that the real head of the Ring was one Violette Levine, a U. S. schoolteacher. But the shy Violette could not be found. Seven more people were arrested for espionage last week, including a Col. Dumoulin, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, accused of selling documents stolen from the War College, and Camille Andr...
...from that of the Robert Gordon Switz's in Paris. Soon after his arrest by the Finnish political police last October on charges of high treason and espionage, the French Government let it be known that Jacobson and Switz were mixed up in the same far-flung spy ring...
Citizen Jacobson obligingly confessed everything. Yes, he knew the Switzes. Yes, Soviet agents in Manhattan had hired him and sent him to Finland. Yes, his ring was connected with groups operating in France, the U. S., Canada, Sweden...