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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Starting out on a new tack Dr. Stegerwald summed his position thus: "The nations collecting reparations from Germany must understand we can pay only from what we derive from selling them goods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Vicious Circles | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

...sagging mouth doubtful even in a 17th Century lady. Mr. Lunt is imposing as the doughty Essex, who deeply resents his Sovereign's curtailment of his expedition to Ireland and who (according to the playwright) could have taken England from Elizabeth had he not been given to understand that she would share the realm with him, an error in judgment which costs him his head. The long, windy dialog which he is forced to wade through-resembling the weighty prose of a Bulwer-Lytton historical drama-is spoken in an unconvincing approximation of what the playwright imagines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 17, 1930 | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

Please tell an interested subscriber the technical device used in Hell's Angels in the scene in which the airplane cut into the Zeppelin (TIME. June 29). I understand no models were used. Is this correct? If so how did the pilot of the plane get out in time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Inspiration & Contrast | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...Their phrase [attributed to Mussolini] that 'Fascismo is not an article for exportation' is not mine. It is too banal. It was adopted for the readers of newspapers who in order to understand anything need to have it translated into terms of commercial jargon. In any case it must now be amended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: More Beautiful Cannon | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...Center) burst out: "The French Government should declare once and for all to the blackshirts and their German friends that we intend to revise nothing whatever! We will no more demolish the Versailles peace treaty to please Mussolini than to satisfy that crazy man Hitler. Let them understand this definitely and they can talk about something else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: More Beautiful Cannon | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

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