Foreign News: Not So Blue Danube

James Ramsay MacDonald, inert for the past few weeks nursing an eyeball on which his doctor had to operate for glaucoma, emerged last week to make his favorite political move. He called a Conference this time of Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy. Subject: the Blue Danubian States.

This year the small countries through which mighty Mother Danube (yellow in color) flows 1,725 miles from the Alps to the Black Sea are desperately blue. They have reared fantastic tariffs and embargoes against each other's trade, made it a crime to export their own...

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