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Dates: during 1930-1939
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> The Maharaja of Indore, reported to be building a Beverly Hills, Calif., palace for his new U. S.-born wife, dug up $150,000 for the Empire cause.
Nazis unofficially estimated the amount plucked from the Jews at about $300,000,000-a sum nearly twice as great as the total German charity collections of all kinds during the year. Nazis even admitted that, had not forced selling depressed the value of Jewish property and securities, the sums...
During his twelve years as master of the Kremlin few authentic anecdotes have been printed about mysterious, closelipped, Georgia-born Joseph Stalin. Last week able New York Times Correspondent Otto D. Tolischus, nosing about the three Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) which have been taken under the Soviet Union'...
> On one occasion when a Baltic Foreign Minister was hard-pressed for concessions by Soviet Foreign Commissar and Premier Viacheslav M. Molotov and his aides, Comrade Stalin walked into the conference room, put his arm around the visitor's shoulder, smiled benignly, said: "Never mind, I'll protect...
Whether or not the details of these dispatches were accurate, they all added up to one conclusion: Russia was acting on some understanding with Germany to the effect that she should have a free hand aiding China against Germany's erstwhile partner. And they further suggested what Russia might...