The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-07-21

Trading company and
Internationally guaranteed by the
Soviet state bank. Amtorg is owned
by the o. S. S. r. and was organized
by the new Russia to carry on it's
business in a country where it had
no official standing. The loans will be
for one year and, like the $50,00o000
advanced to China by the Reconstruc.
tion corporation for the purchase of
wheat and cotton, will bear per cent
interest.
There was much discussion as to
whether this transaction foreboded
diplomatic recognition of the Soviet
government by the United States-an-
other Of Brookhart's hobbies Assist.
ant Secretary of State Moley had an
intimate talk in London with Maxim
Litvinov, astute commissar of Russia.
Riga dispatches say that Moscow ex-
poets this recognition by July 81.
T ITVINOV greatly strengthened
II the Russian governments world
position by bringing to successful
conclusion negotiations for a pact Of
non-aggression with seven of it's neigh
bors. The states signing this conven-
ton, besides Russia, are Estonia, Lat
via. Poland, Rumania. Turkey. Persia
and Afghanistan. Litvinov said in
London:
"The convention constitutes a new
link in the chain of the Soviet gov
ernment's measures Systematically di-
rected towards reinforcement of
peaceful relations with it's neighbours.
The Soviet Union is ready to sign
similar conventions with any other
states irrespective of their geograph.
zeal position and existing relations
with itself"
Several days later it was announced
that Lithuania and Russia had signed
pact along the same lines.
THANCELLOR HITLER has real
~ lied his ambition to control Ger.
many politically. for the Catholic Cen
trists, the last surviving non-Nazi
party. has dissolved, as has the Ba-
varian Peoples party. which before
the elections of March 8 was the sixth
in Importance of the groups in the
reichstag.
Scientifically it was announced ne
gotiations between the Centrists un-
der Former Chancellor Bruening and
the Nazis had been closed, with the
Centrists' reichstag members becom-
ing guests" or "hospitants" of the
Hitlerites.
Bruening himself, one source said.
would not become a Nazi. but Count
Eugen Quadt-Isny. who was empow-
cred to act for the Bavarian popu-
lists. applied for admission to the
Nazi party as hospitant and advised
his colleagues to do the same
All other opposition parties having
quit or merged with the Nazis. the
Hitler government is now free to go
ahead unhampered with its national
revolution" which is being extended
to Industrial, religious, educational and
agricultural life.
HIGHLY successful aviation meets
were held in both Los Angeles
and Chicago The only unfortunate
incident in connection with the Cali
fornia affair was the death of Russell
Boardman. noted transoceanic aviator,
whose plane crashed at Indianapolis
as he was racing across the continent.
n MONG recent deaths were those
of Albert r. Erskine, former head
of the Studebaker automobile corpora
ton. who committed suicide; and
Hipolito Yrigoyen, one of the most
powerful figures in Argentina and
twice President Of that republic.
THOSE who are interested in the
l. doings of the movie folk-and their
number is legion-are ayidly reading
about the break up of what had been
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