Friday, May 24, 2019

Thursday, August 7, 1930


Berlin:  The attempt at forming a centrist coalition political party (see Aug. 4) fails.  The newly formed “State” party refuses to give up its identity and join the People’s party, and so the plan collapses.  This is expected to help the cause of extreme parties such as communists and nazis.

London:  Meanwhile, nationalists in Germany get a political gift from an unexpected source, when the British Electric and Allied Manufacturers’ Association asserts that the worst of the economic depression in Great Britain is yet to come, and that war reparation payments by Great Britain to the U.S. are a big part of the problem.  German nationalists seize upon this as proof that their opposition to the reparations payments of the Young Plan is well-founded.

Bucharest:  More anti-Semitic violence flares.  Nationalist students board a Bucharest-to-Czernowitz train at a stopover and attack Jewish passengers with cudgels. 

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