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...idea of trying to depress world automobile prices into President Herbert Hoover's head he could not order Fords and Chevrolets sold at $100 apiece. But Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin can do things remarkably like that. To understand this, to gauge the potential power of Red statesmen to work mischief in world markets, was more vital last week than to be scared by lurid rumors of Red grain dumping in Liverpool and Amsterdam, Red speculating for the decline in Chicago's wheat...
Moscow meanwhile was in significant frenzy about an internal food crisis, useful measure of the limit beyond which Red statesmen cannot go in external dumping. The Soviet press (a Government monopoly) told citizens throughout Russia of a British plot to "starve" them. Naming names, Izvestia declared the chief villain to be Andrew Fothergill Esq., a director of the British Union Cold Storage Co.'s plant at Riga, Latvia. He was said to have bribed the Chairman of the Soviet Meat Trust, Professor Alexander Riazanzev, to "disorganize the Soviet food distribution system and promote wholesale famine in Russia." Some Soviet...
Significance. In 1913 Russian wheat exports were 450,000.000 bushels. Last week U. S. experts still spoke in terms of 45,000,000 bushels as the maximum possible Russian export for 1930. In Moscow itself Soviet statesmen, cheered by returns showing that Russia's present "bumper crop" is 10% to 12% greater than last year, spoke of a possible export surplus of 90,000,000 bushels, one-fourth of the 1913 figure. If this actually "small" Russian export can break the bottom out of wheat prices, the underlying cause must be some concealed "big" factor. It is this...
Groping about in what dramatic Dr. Stephen Osusky of Czechoslovakia called "the most stifling fog of pessimism I have ever breathed," statesmen of the League of Nations found it desperately difficult last week to lay hold of any useful plan for dealing with present worldwide Depression...
Upsetting to statesmen, hours and days of such pessimistic talk had an almost hysterical effect on the leading stateswoman present, Britain's Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, Miss Susan Lawrence. Eagerly she snatched at a swarthy Indian delegate's proposal that the League spend $20,000 on a "scientific study" of Depression. When a thrifty Dutchman objected that "such a sum, in the circumstances, might seem extravagant," Miss Lawrence bounded quivering to her feet...