Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germany's peripatetic statesmen found the Eternal City bleak but enthusiastic. They had come from Berlin in an ordinary sleeping car. At the Brenner Pass they found a special train of six cars put at their disposal by Premier Mussolini. At the station in Rome, Il Duce was waiting for them, beaming with pleasure, poking his Fascist yes-men in the ribs. The German statesmen were whisked through streets lined with Carabinieri in full dress, past cheering crowds to the Grand Hotel on the Piazza delle Terme. There was only one untoward incident. A group of German tourists...
...signs of such an agreement appeared. The statesmen saw the sights of Rome. They ate a great deal of food at a great many banquets. They had tea under the towering cypresses of the Villa d'Este at Tivoli. Carefully the statesmen avoided any talk of a political alliance, any mention of the repressed German-speaking minorities in the South Tyrol. Finally came news. Chancellor Brüning and Premier Mussolini made a trade agreement. Germany agreed to lift certain of her emergency restrictions on the purchase of foreign currency to allow Italy to market her surplus crop of oranges...
Germany let go of the bull's tail last week. Banks were allowed to reopen fully. German statesmen sighed with relief, for nothing much happened. Not only were there no runs, but for the first two or three days correspondents were proudly told that deposits were actually larger than withdrawals. German statesmen played their hand shrewdly. During the three weeks that Germany has been under partial moratorium the Government investigated every bank that seemed to be in serious trouble. Deposits of the closed Danat Bank were guaranteed. The Government bought 75%, of the stock of the great Dresdner Bank...
Plebiscite. It did not seem possible for hard-ridden Germany to avoid some sort of crisis for more than a few days. No sooner had the reopening of the banks passed off quietly than German statesmen were up to their necks on the problem of the Prussian plebiscite...
That blunt remark, truer than most statesmen liked to have known, not only frightened the British cabinet but frightened the great house of Rothschild, whose wealth is as much in Great Britain as on the continent. Through their Paris and their London houses the Rothschilds exerted every pressure to stop the French run on British gold, to push through the Franco-U. S. credit to the Bank of England. But if Britons needed any further knowledge of their country's precarious finances it came at Westminster when on the day that Parliament adjourned the Government's Economy Commission...