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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loudest protest of all was fired off in London by Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japan's Ambassador. He was instructed to say that "in case vital interests of Japan should be affected . . . Japan would be compelled to take appropriate counter-measures." This was tough talk from a country whose fondness for Germany is supposed to have been cooled by the Hitler-Stalin Deal. But Japan, threatened by an embargo of U. S. exports to her at the next session of the U. S. Congress, faced a tough spot...
Deepest effect of Britain's blockade of German exports-formal proclamation of which was delayed until the neutrals had sounded off-will be much like the trade-hampering effect of the U. S. cash-&-carry law, but working in reverse. Customers will certainly not take title to goods ordered from Germany until the goods are landed safely on the buyer's doorstep. And customers will be reluctant to order German goods, knowing them to be subject to delay or confiscation on their way overseas...
Chapter 8: What Guilt!: Questioning of Elser began. "Examinations of him," reported Deutsche Dienst, "take no end of time. He ponders every word before he replies, and if one can observe him, one forgets what a vile animal he is. What guilt. What a horrible burden his conscience apparently is able to bear so lightly...
This week Author Himmler indicated that there would be an interesting sequel, The Trial of George Elser. There were heaps of evidence, he further indicated, to prove Elser guilty and disprove the preposterous French assertion that George Elser was yanked out of a concentration camp to take a whopping...
...long conferences at No. 10 Downing Street with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. General Sikorski created a mild sensation by declaring that his Government does not differentiate between the German and Russian invasion of his country and added that he had no reason to believe that Britain and France take a contrary view. In tune with the new Anglo-French groping toward a European Union, he voiced "hope that the convulsions now shaking Europe will lead to the emergence of the idea of European solidarity...