Word: trade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany is precisely the country among all others that has faithfully observed and respected the Monroe Doctrine. Germany has no interests to stand up for on the entire American continent unless it be to develop as extensive trade as possible with all the States on that continent. It requires an almost morbid imagination to conceive of any difference or dispute between America and Germany that might ever lead to conflict between these two peoples...
...Berlin radio estimated that Soviet-Nazi trade for the next year would reach $800,000,000, about twelve times what it was last year. In return for "thousands, even millions" of tons of cotton, oil, flax, wood, Germany would deliver to the Bolsheviks entire factories, chemicals, machinery...
...Soviet trade delegation of 45 experts arrived in Berlin, headed by Commissar for Shipbuilding Ivan T. Tevosyan. They were entertained in state. At the Chancellery they drove past the huge bronze doors, were honored by a company of the Führer's bodyguard standing at attention, entered the great Chancellery hall lined with servants dressed in silver braid, blue coats, red vests, black silk knee breeches. The Führer received seven of the delegation. Their program in Germany was to include visits to the Limes Line, the Krupp works and the Zeppelin plant at Friedrichshafen...
Talk as the Germans and Russians might over expanding trade, up to this week no foreign correspondent in the Reich could report that he had seen the actual arrival of Russian goods in volume. Foreign diplomats wondered whether these big trade announcements were not calculated: 1) to scare the Allies; 2) to reassure the German people that this time a blockade would not be effective; 3) to persuade doubting Germans that the Russians were, after all, reliable allies. Anent this thesis, the New York Herald Tribune's peripatetic Joseph Barnes, who specializes in listening to streetcar conversations and talking...
...harboring "Communists," which term he defined broadly. He made himself ridiculous by cutting his own salary, then restoring the cut; by decreeing French to be Quebec's official language, then rescinding the decree. Because he used Hitler's theories of racism, Mussolini's system of corporatist trade-union laws, and Huey Long's finger-wagging, roughshod political tactics, he was called a Fascist...