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...Either Germany is given justice and freedom or Europe will risk destruction!" threatened Prime Minister MacDonald at his friend Premier Daladier. He explained that he quoted this threat from another "friend of mine whom I hold in the highest esteem"-apparently trie German delegate, Rudolf Nafolny...
Paradoxically enough, the comparative success which is greeting the MacDonald-Mussolini peace plan reveals a startling threat to European tranquillity. Hitherto, with France and her Little Entente in a dominating position on the Continent, war seemed rather distant. But now it appears that England is throwing her weight into the scales, together with Italy, thus tending toward equalization of the opposing forces and increasing danger of armed conflict...
This action was taken as the result of the report made a week ago by an inspector of the Massachusetts Department of Public Safety in which a threat was made to condemn the building unless the fire hazard is reduced. University officials have stated that because of the present general financial conditions no extensive repairs are contemplated at this time...
...British Press, led by the London Times, went even further in accusation. Said the Times: "The threat of a general massacre of political opponents [by the Nazis] might have been dismissed two months ago as crude bravado but cannot be rated so lightly now. . . . Although the rumors may prove unfounded, they continue to reach England from several good sources." London's Daily Herald, one-time organ of James Ramsay MacDonald, now of the British Labor Party, declared: "A quarter-million Nazi storm troops, including desperate characters over whom even Chancellor Hitler cannot exercise control, will, it is stated, invade...
...Restaurants filled their cash registers with bales of signed lunch checks. Food dealers, both wholesale and retail, were generous to the end in extending credit. A threat to Detroit's milk supply existed in the inability of farmers to collect enough cash to buy feed for their cattle...