Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first step in fighting Fascism, Author Mumford recommends non-intercourse with dictatorships-withdrawal of U. S. nationals from Germany, Italy, Japan; liquidation of all investments there; a complete embargo on all trade with those countries, including U. S. tourist trade...
Many a big name has been attached to many a plan to get the harassed Jews out of Germany. Last week the big name of the man most responsible for the whole terrible business was attached to still another. His country's economy sagging* from the serious trade losses that followed his pogroms last autumn, Führer Adolf Hitler last week proposed a truce with the Jews. In a meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees, Director George Rublee presented Führer Hitler's refugee plan...
...Westerners are convinced that aid through the sale of special supplies to England and France can only entangle us where we should not be. Whatever trade we have with these European countries, they feel, must rest on an attitude strictly impartial in action, if not in thought. This does not mean that supplies should be cut off from these two countries, but that they should get them at our convenience, after our interests had first been considered, if our interests allowed such sales at all. We are not to inconvenience ourselves just to sell to democracies. Thus the policy...
Naval preoccupation with South America is historic. The Monroe Doctrine has ever been a handy reason for a Big Navy. But the Navy's traditional reason for existence has long been Japan and its threat to U. S. possessions and trade in the Pacific. Japan outnumbers the U. S. in some ship categories, particularly submarines. Leahy & Co. do not worry greatly about this, having small respect for Japanese numbers. By U. S. standards, the Japanese have yet to learn to build efficient surface ships, tend to overload them with disastrously topheavy armor and guns...
Ideological political differences between nations are often overlooked when the pocketbook is concerned. Anti-Communist Germany was at one time the chief seller of goods to Soviet Russia and. although trade between the two countries is gradually drying up, as late as 1937 15% of Russia's imports came from Germany. Last week the Soviet Union made a new pocketbook deal with Italy, where the Anti-Comintern pact originated. Under a barter arrangement, trade between the two nations is expected to hit $52,675,000 annually, almost two and a half times the volume provided by their last commercial...