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Focuses on the increase in the number of U.S. visitors to Germany in 1938, according to statistics of the British government. Reason for the increase.

Presents information on the economic consequences of the French occupation of the Ruhr, Germany. Assumption that France is in the Ruhr for political reasons, and is there to stay, the economic consequences will prove of vastly greater significance; Discussion of motives for the action of France in the Ruhr; View that the French leaders know well enough that Germany is in involuntary default on cash payments; Admittance that the sale of paper marks to foreign bankers and servant girls are no longer a lucrative source of revenue; Were there any valid economic reasons for the French opposition to the appointment of a commission of neutral experts to study the capacity of Germany to pay; Description of two alternatives open to the government in power in France; Report that the only possibility for economic gain lies in a permanent occupation, in the economic, if not political annexation of the Ruhr to France.

Presents news related to political developments all round the world. Impact of World War I on various industries in the U.S.; Claims that the chief obstacle to a general peace in Germany is the baleful subordination in German policy of political to military considerations; Report that the U.S. government is spending millions on words printed in the daily papers in order to sell Liberty bonds; Features of the agreements and disagreements of the Irish convention; Information about war loans; Work of women in selling liberty bonds in the U.S.; Comments on New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, San Francisco, and other harbors that are handling commerce for war.

Presents information on recent socio-political developments from across the world. Information about the great campaign for home repair and modernization in the U.S.; Eighteen thousand banks are ready to make loans for these purposes to people who otherwise could not get the money, and the government guarantees them against loss up to 20 percent, as well as discounting the home owner's paper if desired; Impact of the Nazi movement on Austrian government and administrative circles; Elections in Germany; Mystery of the San Francisco, California longshoremen's strike brought out in the recent inquest into the deaths of Howard Sperry and Nicholas Boredeis, who were killed during the police attacks that accompanied the Industrial Association's attempts to open the port with force.

The article focuses on Axel Springer who runs an influential publishing house in Germany. Springer owns a complex of companies that put out a chain of newspapers and magazines read by 150 million people each month. Gross annual income tops 100 million U.S. dollars. Springer also owns a travel bureau and an international press and literary agency.

The article discusses international politics, emphasizing the political conditions of Germany. Every state has become a battle ground for lower gas and electric rates, with the long-suffering public engaged in an uphill fight against the utilities, which in addition to their vast financial resources are generally buttressed by the public authorities, executive, legislative, and judicial. The State public-utilities commission is, at the very best, a feeble neutral. More often it weights the scales in favor of the power companies. Alfred Hugenberg, the man who was chiefly responsible for the appointment by Hindenburg of Adolf Hitler to the Chancellorship of the Reich, has received his walking papers. The period of Nazi rule now beginning will be characterized by an extreme nervousness that will express itself in the persecution of all who dare doubt or resent National Socialist methods.

This article presents the text of the brief presented by the German Delegation at the Spa Conference in July 1920, on the subject of "Germany's Solvency for the Purpose of Reparations." According to the text, German economics before the war had to solve the problem how to feed an ever growing population placed on a comparatively small territory. In spite of all, Germany would never have been able to support her population by agriculture and industry alone. Taking an average of some years, German imports considerably exceeded her exports.

The article focuses on the reestablishment of Germany's merchant marine after World War I. Early financing of the merchant marine by the German government and the shipping companies themselves is examined. Details related to the policies of German shipping companies concerning joint operations between German and foreign companies, especially American shipping companies, are discussed. Comparisons are made of the capabilities of the German merchant marine before and after World War I, and the improvements upon operation made by companies such as the Hamburg-American Line are presented.

The article details the difficult situation that German businesses are finding themselves in as the German mark depreciates and businesses are unable to find capital to fund growth. The article explains that German business is facing low worker performance, an increase in overhead costs, a lengthening in time to process raw materials, and unstable product prices. The article examines the efforts to stabilize industry, including the attempt by some industrial firms to establish their own banking institutions to attract financing and the formation of branch factories in other countries. The issues of loans, "valorization," and interest rates from the Reichsbank and commercial banks are addressed. Because of instability, much German industrial financing is being backed by foreign currencies.

The article compares the German stock exchange quotations and dividends from before World War I to those up to 1923. The author suggests that to calculate the actual value of the current quotations, the par values of the shares before the war must be considered, as well as the par value of the shares issued in the meantime at their gold par value at the time of the issue. He includes tables showing the real values of stocks before and after the war in several different industries. Furthermore, he analyzes the real value of the stock before and after the war and presents several conclusions.

The article provides world news briefs for the week ending May 19, 1941. Germany's third top Nazi, Rudolph Hess, is reported to have flown alone in a Messerschmitt fighter and landed in Scotland with identification papers and heart medicine. Former U.S. President Herbert Hoover stated the U.S. shouldn't enter the war because the country is disunited and instead should supply England with tools of war. Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka Yosuke has come to the U.S. for diplomatic talks.

The article focuses on the interest of lumber-producing states and the lumber industry on an improved hydrolysis process for percolating of wood sugar from coniferous wood waste under the Scholler patents in Germany. Lumber-producing states and the industry see hopes that the process can be a new source of revenue as alcohol source. Japan and Italy purchase licenses to use the patent. The Alien Property Custodian makes the patents available to U.S. plants.

This article presents information on various literary developments which were brought about by the German aggression of France. An open contest for young writers was held on a weekly basis by a good literary paper. The subjects were "Portrait of a Collaborator Who Has Turned His Coat," and "Books Which Have Done Most Harm to France in the Last Four Years." Jean Bruller, whose "Silence of the Sea" remains the classic description of the pure French spiritual attitude toward the German triumph, now edits in the open his Editions de Minuit, which was the highwater mark of clandestine publishing. But it is taken as a sign of the present slackness of creative writing that his lists mainly include reprints.

The article focuses on the recommendation by German High Commissioner to sell the daily periodical "Die Welt" to publisher Axel C. Springer for an estimated 1 million U.S. dollars in the week of May 1953. It was noted that some Germans have expressed concern over the potential political power that the publisher may gain as he currently owns two newspapers and three magazines. Alsos stated is the plan of Springer to expand his power by acquiring two more periodicals.

Focuses on the printing of a cartoon picturing Mars with a satisfied smile on his lips, lighting a cigar with the peace treaty release at the time of the announcement of the peace terms with Germany. Suitability of the caricature with opinion of the people on the treaty; Views on the impact of the treaty with imperialism in Germany; Standpoints of other publications to the League of Nations.

This article focuses on the book "Trade Fallacies," by Arthur Kitson. Kitson asks why the Allies have so completely failed to employ the psychological factor against the enemy, while the enemy has employed it in neutral countries with such skill and success against the Allies. What interests the reader most is the financial factor, to which Kitson devotes his second chapter. He appears to be full of admiration for the German way of financing the situation created by the First World War. Kitson assumes that if a nation has no commercial relations with the outside world it has nothing to fear from an expansive paper currency.

The article reports that the mistake made by the Army's Stars and Stripes in Germany in the middle initial of Lieutenant Colonel Richard F. Whitcomb, who was convicted of plundering a requisitioned house, has grown out of proportion by the media. Some of the issues published about Whitcomb include the discrepancy in his home town and his candidacy for the Republican gubernatorial election in 1938. After Whitcomb clarified the issue, a jury awarded him 65,000 U.S. dollars for the lawsuits he filed against newspapers that published the stories about him.

Comments on the adverse reaction of various political quarters in France towards papers related to politics by the late German foreign minister Gustav Stresemann. Charges made against Stresemann's papers by editors of the newspapers Le Journal des Debats, Le Temps and L'Echo de Paris; Impact of these papers on Franco-German relations; Views of Stresemann that the guarantee of Germany's western frontier were no sacrifice of German interests.

Germany's heavy artillery in its journalistic assault on the Jews is represented by two weeklies, the Sturmer and the Judenkenner. About as large as the American tabloid, these two papers run to eight pages an issue and cost twenty pfennigs. Neither paper restricts itself to fighting the Jews but combats also the Catholics and the Free Masons. Nor is the battle against Judea confined to Germany. All countries are included, and in a recent issue of the Judenkenner the U.S. was given an entire page.

The article reports on the plan of Germany to purchase Anticosti Island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. The island is located 360 miles below Quebec City. A German party composed of forestry technicians, a deep sea navigation expert, and a harbor engineer surveyed the island. Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis accused the German proposition as audacious. The island is owned by Consolidated Paper Corp.

The article discusses German trade relations with the U.S. in November 1934, with Berlin regulating foreign trade and shifting important orders such as cotton, mineral oils, copper and other essential raw materials, from the U.S. to other countries with which it has more favorable trade balance.

The article discusses Berlin, Germany's reliance on production of substitutes to reduce dependence on imports in 1934. It cites potatoes that yield alcohol mixed with gasoline and synthetic gasoline from German Dye Trust. Germany has allegedly decreed that its big lignite companies combine to finance, construct and operate a giant gasoline plant costing about 100 million U.S. dollars, causing the stock market to react with a fall of lignite share prices. The same method of financing is rumored to be applied to produce other substitute materials.

The article discusses the attacks on Axel Springer, the biggest publisher in Germany. It relates that left-wing students of Erlangen University burnt Springer publications at the Frankfurt fall book fair. It states that his publications reflect the conservative insights of respectable German burgess, who is oriented toward family and home, antagonistic to Communism, and skeptical of change. It says that Springer fights back his opponents personally and in his publications.

The editor, in this article, highlights international political affairs. A humiliating armistice signed on the enemy's terms, the Kaiser fallen, the throne lost to the Hohenzollern, Germany crashing to pieces in violent revolution-thus ends the war which has convulsed the world. For the political disaster which overtook his party on Election Day U.S. President Woodrow Wilson has only himself to blame. Deep chagrin and humiliation should be his, for the blow to liberalism is grave indeed. The Russian news published by even the best American papers has been, from the beginning of the revolution, of the most meager prescription; it has not at any time compared favorably in either content or scope with the news regularly published by the English press and even by the British Government; and for the past three or four weeks there has been scarcely any important news at all.

This article focuses on literature. It is a great pleasure at last to receive the long-promised second series of the book "Biglow Papers." The book is headed by an excellent introduction. Science and literature in this country will owe much to writer George Peabody, who, in his benefactions, in addition to using his own good sense, does riot refuse good advice. Besides the libraries and institutes at Danvers and Baltimore, the latter endowed with over a million of dollars, he has given handsome sums to various minor colleges and schools. The proprietors of the journal "K&oouml;nisehe Zeitung," are issuing a weekly edition of that paper, the first attempt, at a political weekly in Germany.

Offers a look at control of the Nazi government on the press under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. Revelation of the fact of control on press through the accounts given by tourists regarding the apparent peace and contentment prevailing in Germany; Assertion of a staff correspondent about the renewed subjugation of Jews and liberals in Prussia; Control of government agents on the press by tapping telephone and telegraph lines, and threatening editors and staff members; Restrictions on foreign magazines and newspapers in Germany; Suppression of specific issues of certain papers; Broadcast of news by a French station at Strasbourg, France, which used both the German and French language; Preference to be given to the book "Mein Kampf," by Hitler in bookstores.

Focuses on the importance of Office of War Information (OWI). Censorship of news to be broadcast in Germany; Check on the freedom of press until the elimination of Nazi and militarist influence in Germany; Probability of withdrawing the free news service which the OWl provided to European papers; Impact of the lack of a positive, over-all postwar radio program for Europe; Difficulty in receiving American radio as compared to British Broadcasting Corp.'s news; Audience of the "Voice of America," an identification for the OWI radio; News of political developments; Prohibition of items disparaging or showing hostility to Chiang Kai-Shek, head of nationalist government on Taiwan; Information on distortion of news; Reasons for the systemic faults of the OWl which arise due to the recruitment of inexperienced personnel in various news and language desks.

Reports on anti-Nazi activities in Germany. Statistics on death sentences for treason and for undermining the morale of the fighting forces; Strikes by war workers in Bremen and disorders in Munich supporting anti-Nazi sentiments; Information on a decree that urged Nazi officers to educate their men in Nazi philosophy; Protests against German dictator Adolf Hitler by underground papers like "Der Durchbruch" and "Die Innere Front"; Information on Youth Control Offices in Germany to combat anti-Nazis in every district of Germany.

This article focuses on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Under the capable leadership of General Dwight David Eisenhower the European divisions that a year ago existed only on paper seem to be materializing. When the interim report on the European army was signed at the Quai d'Orsay, the press that is closed to various foreign offices hailed the event enthusiastically, although it was generally recognized that the document was not an agreement and that its proposals were only tentative. Aside from what might be called the classic difficulty of German participation, many suspicions and prejudices must be overcome before a European army can be integrated in the Atlantic defense force.

The article reports that German banks have offered a credit of 12 million U.S. dollars to the Soviet Union in an effort strengthen political relations and alleviate its maturing debt payments. Observers note that pending a cancellation of the Versailles Treaty, Germany will pursue both commercial and political means to acknowledge mutual interest with Russia. France has also expressed a renewal of ties with Russia in terms of a trade treaty that will neutralize Germany's attempts to maintain Soviet relations.

The article presents information on several books "Einstein's Theory of Relativity," by Max Born, "Space, Time, Motion," by A. V. Vasiliev, Space and Time," by Carl Benedicks. Last year a college teacher in Louvain University counted 3,775 Lad books and papers that had been written, mostly within the last ten years, on Einstein's theory of relativity. And here come three more: one from Germany, one from Russia, and one from Sweden. But this outpour is not to be wondered at or objected to if Bertrand Russell is right in saying, in his introduction to the Russiau book, that "The general theory of relativity is probably the greatest synthetic achievement of the human intellect up to the present time.

The article presents information related to the political and social conditions in the world during 1923. Political parties and individual ministers have become almost insignificant in Germany, behind them move powerful economic forces. The revolution in Bulgaria has crumbled under fire, thousands of rebels are said to have been mowed down by the government troops, Communist and agrarian leaders have been executed, hundreds of men are in jail. Magnus Johnson, the second Farmer-Labor candidate Minnesota has elected to the U.S. Senate, does well to emphasize the field that still exists for political action in this country.

The general impression one gets from reading the official Nazi press is that though the Germans have conquered Europe, they are depressed and sad, so sad that the Propaganda Ministry cannot cover it up. Even the reports of Germany's victories written by official war correspondents contain no note of triumph but are tinged rather with weariness and nostalgia. The article presents an excerpt from a story printed in "Das Reich," the official paper of the Propaganda Ministry, illustrates the prevalent tone of the reports from the eastern front.

The article presents news related to world politics. The margin of the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's victory on the neutrality bill came as a surprise even to the most loyal administration supporters. A long step has been taken toward a realistic peace policy. The U.S. has taken a stand which, though technically neutral, is actually against Hitler. The ghastly horrors of the German concentration camps, related in the new British White Paper, cannot be written off as a baseless wartime propaganda. Incredible as the facts may seem, they have been confirmed all too amply by other sources.

The article presents news related to political issues. In January the Institute for Propaganda Analysis published a bulletin revealing that a certain George Deatherage, guest and speaker at the international anti-Semitic conference held under Nazi auspices at Erfurt, Germany, last year, was organizing a confederation of American fascist groups and had asked Major General George Van Horn Mosely to lead it. The latest British White Paper on Palestine confirms, in cold print, the sacrifice to imperial interest of a solemn obligation. The project of converting the ancient Jewish homeland into a state where two peoples, the existing Arab population and the returning Jews should live on a basis of absolute equality called for great statesmanship and an unselfish purpose. But the clique in Great Britain which determines imperial policy could not rise above selfish considerations. It is evident that Great Britain is not in the least concerned with the plight of Palestine's residents, Jewish or Arab.

Presents information related to the Danish invasion by Germany. Rumors in the American press that there were Nazi sympathizers in Denmark; Action of the Danish state against the Nazi ex-Communists who ran a Nazi paper; Assembly of the Danes on Sundays, in Copenhagen to join in patriotic national songs; Circulation of books on every aspects of the national life in the country; Provision for sending unemployed to folk high schools; Aim of Reich to weave Denmark into the German economic realm and to break down the strong Danish labor organizations.

Focuses on prevalent scenario in Great Britain amidst growing political presence of Germany in various countries of Europe. Questions asked by U.S. visitors to Great Britain on the censorship of films and on editing of foreign publications like "Time"; Comment on diplomatic pressure from Germany on the press of various European countries to desist from printing anti-Nazi material with speculations on possible impact on Great Britain; Structure of commercial press in Great Britain; Potency of British laws against libel; Constituents of Incitement to Disaffection Bill.

The article presents information on the various development around the world during the early 1930. Constitutional dictatorship in Germany has been foreshadowed ever since the middle of June, when Professor Paul Moldenhauer resigned as Finance Minister after his proposals for reforming the finances and balancing the budget were overwhelmingly rejected. On November 1, 1929 a group of American Communists organized a bimonthly paper called the "Revolutionary Age." Postmaster John J. Kiely of New York has refused second-class mailing privileges to this paper on the ground that the first six issues were held by the Solicitor of Post Office Department to be unmailable.