Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, has the job of capitulating to Italy down the lake in Geneva this week (see p. 18). At the opening session in Montreux, high praise for Turkey's considerate action in calling the Conference at all was voiced by Britain, France. Russia, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Greece and Bulgaria. The only delegate who did not chime in eulogy was Japan's hard-boiled Naotake Sato...
...doctor had sat up all night in Vienna with ever-scheming Franz von Papen and Austrian financiers; he was greeted in Belgrade with an order for German heavy industrial products almost huge enough to wipe out the $8,000,000 Germany owes Yugoslavia; and in Athens the swashbuckling entourage of Premier General Metaxas said talk had all been of deals involving German aircraft, artillery and four destroyers for Greece. In Sofia there was a matter of some Bulgar credits in Germany now secretly liquidated in great part by German shipments of arms to Italy for which Italy paid Bulgaria...
Broader Schacht facts were that in the past two years Germany has become Hungary's best customer, the greatest exporter to and buyer from Yugoslavia. By Schacht barter deals, Germany is now selling the Balkan countries manufactured goods, possibly at as much as 50% below cash prices in exchange for their raw stuffs. French heavy industry, which used to have Yugoslavia economically in its pocket, is gradually being frozen out. With a Radical Cabinet now ruling France, conservative or reactionary Balkan regimes look increasingly to Berlin...
...Eleutherios Venizelos, who died recently in exile in Paris, was known as the father of (1 Yugoslavia, 2 the Greek Republic, 3 the New Turkey, 4 the Spanish Republic, 5 the New Poland...
...likely to become his own Foreign Minister as he believes the Premier should hold no Cabinet portfolio. Meantime M. Blum was busy promulgating the means by which he expects to guarantee France peace & power in Europe: a six-sided mutual assistance treaty between France, Britain, Russia, Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, notably omitting Germany, Italy and Poland. Just how tough a job of statesmanship M. Blum had set himself was indicated last week by Chicago Daily News Correspondent Edgar Ansel Mowrer: "The chief problem confronting . . . Leon Blum, is whether France is to ... descend to the rank of a third-rate power...