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...artillery officer who had become managing director of Deutsche Lufthansa, the big State-subsidized air combine. Short and chubby, bursting with energy and ability, Milch as a personality might have been taken for an able and energetic U. S. businessman. He tackled a terrific problem. Germany was a poverty-stricken nation. She was then forbidden a military air force. When the Nazis got in power (1933), Air Minister Göring made Milch Secretary of Air Traffic. Milch called War Ace Ernst Udet away from the cinema industry and together they built a shadow Luftwaffe. Besides an Air Sport League...
Three cheers for the new Governor rolled weakly up from the heat-stricken audience and the Duke & Duchess began their first official task, shaking black and white hands. Then the Governor and his lady waved to the people of their domain from a balcony and drove off to get a long cool drink at Government House. Already the Duke had lent Nassau a helping hand. In Manhattan. Eastern Steamship Lines reported a boom in tourist bookings of Americans who wanted to visit the islands...
Franklin Roosevelt almost certainly did not intend to ask the British to let the U. S. feed Hitler's victims, unless U. S. public opinion forced such a step. Neither did the U. S. Red Cross, which up to last week had distributed about $8,000,000 to stricken Europe, hardly knew what to do with the balance of a $20,000,000 relief fund (except to continue helping Great Britain, perhaps send medical supplies, baby food, etc. to unoccupied France). And Washington had no doubts about what Britain would say, if she were asked to give...
Back of this lay an old irritation, the fact that ever since the Loyalist Government collapsed in Spain, Chile's Embassy in Madrid has given sanctuary to 13 Spanish Loyalists and refused to surrender them. A counter irritant was that poverty-stricken Franco has refused to pay for 100,000,000 pesos ($3,500,000) worth of Chilean nitrate and iodine...
...most telling and it drew most applause in its condemnation of the dictatorial way of life-the way of force, of "deliberate contempt" of moral values, of treachery and double-dealing, the way that had come to its great climax in the assassin lunge of Italy upon stricken France. Three months ago, said the President, Mussolini had sent him word that Italy was determined to prevent the spread of war to the Mediterranean. The U. S. Government had concurred, had offered to approach Britain and France-about Italy's territorial claims, about the creation "when the appropriate occasion arose...