Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Munich the element of reluctance has given way to alacrity in the Balkans where Germany is concerned. Dr. Funk announced last week that the Economics Ministers of Turkey, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria have all "gladly accepted" his invitations to come to Berlin and talk further big business soon...
...Balkan Axis." Declared the German Economics Minister: "Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Turkey, which are political friends, form a kind of Balkan axis which reaches from the German border to the Black Sea. This fact made it possible to negotiate great economic reconstruction plans for all three countries, including extensive road construction and telephone and cable installation...
...Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Turkey] command rich natural resources, unexploited so far. They will now increase production of agricultural products for which Germany has a special demand, such as cotton and oil cake, and will adapt them for German quality demands. Already about half the foreign trade of these three countries is conducted with Germany and in connection with the crisis-proof German economy this enabled them to overcome the last world economic crisis...
Crisis-Proof? From Belgrade, Yugoslavia, the Chicago Daily News's famed Balkan newspundit, M. W. Fodor, who operated in Vienna before the Anschluss, last week flashed: "German planned economics is in essence a form of socialist production and distribution. Up until the recent downfall of Czechoslovakia, the conventional capitalist system of production and distribution was never really seriously challenged outside of Russia. Completion of a successful tour of the Balkans by Dr. Walther Funk . . . signals not only the fact that Germany has finally won the World War, but also that she has delivered the most serious blow the capitalist...
Instantly the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Rumania) and Poland raised a protesting outcry, and before the Pact could be signed it was amended to restrict action under the Pact to what could be agreed upon under League auspices at Geneva, not merely by the Big Four but by all parties nearly or remotely concerned...