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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Wolf of Wall Street. For defense of the German Government, Dr. Karl von Lewinski opened his rebuttal by crying: "We cannot allow the American nation to get the impression that the German Government, before America entered the war, carried on a campaign of frightfulness against America...
Moscow meanwhile was in significant frenzy about an internal food crisis, useful measure of the limit beyond which Red statesmen cannot go in external dumping. The Soviet press (a Government monopoly) told citizens throughout Russia of a British plot to "starve" them. Naming names, Izvestia declared the chief villain to be Andrew Fothergill Esq., a director of the British Union Cold Storage Co.'s plant at Riga, Latvia. He was said to have bribed the Chairman of the Soviet Meat Trust, Professor Alexander Riazanzev, to "disorganize the Soviet food distribution system and promote wholesale famine in Russia." Some Soviet...
...monopolistic state has risen able to play this game, eager to try, likely to bungle the colossal gamble. Hyde's Idea. In Moscow grim smiles last week greeted U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde's naïve idea (TIME, Sept. 29) that Dictator Stalin "cannot" throw actual grain into the World market to cover his short sales because right now "the Russians find it necessary to ration their own people and to shoot men for forging food cards!" This is exactly what Moscow's "Man of Steel" can do, is doing, will continue...
...were under arms during the Great War. Canada's Dr. Walter Riddell suggested darkly that farmers in America, equipped with tractors and loans at the bank, may be worse off than Europe's simple peasantry, not thus supplied. The overseas farmer he said, "being entirely on a price basis, cannot live unless he sells at a profit." Bankrupt, he loses his farm through foreclosure, and this fate, warned Dr. Riddell, befell "some 2,000.000 U. S. farmers after the slump...
...cannot obtain such support for himself or arrange it for some other "moderate," Prime Minister Brüning, according to his closest friends last week, was agreed with Old Paul that they must "save the nation from itself" by adjourning the new Reichstag (only just elected) and embarking on a high-handed program of rule by "executive decree"?in other words Dictatorship, a procedure made quasi-legal by article 48 of the German Constitution conferring on the President "extraordinary powers...