Armaments salesmen had a busy time last week, as cash-hungry nations peddled their military wares even to possible enemies and the other nations bought to cover chinks in their armor.
>Nazi Germany, already arming most of the Balkan countries, offered potential enemy Yugoslavia a 200,000,000-mark credit to be applied on armament purchases over a ten-year period.
>Germany, which needs gold more than guns, even offered to sell to France some of the vast cache of arms seized when the Nazis marched into Czecho-Slovakia. Heading the list of bargains were 1,600 war planes. Czech...
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