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OFTHE CHINA MAIL MARCH 16, 1940
HITLER'S NO. 1 BLOCKADE - BUSTER
(From Cedric Salter)
Belgrade. mania of staggering proportions only
two months ago.
While America's "Peace Explorer," Mr. Sumner Welles, has been holding his secret talks with Signor Mussolini and Count Ciano in Rome, Hitler's "Trade Explorer," Dr. Carl Clodius, has been rushed to Berlin ahead of him.
Dr. Clodius, after his Balkan nego tiations and his success in effecting the Italo-German, trade agreement, has earned the title Hitler's No. 1 Blockade-Buster.
Wherever Clodius goes. he makes news. One day his economic. de- mands-bring about the downfall of the Rumanian' Government. Then he signs an agreement with their suc- cessors for nearly 2,000,000 tons petrol.
a
It was soon after he left Berlin
Clodius University that
found his special talent lay in the direction of international economics, and he un-
of derwent the regular training professional diplomat; holding posts in the German embassies in Paris, Sofia, and Vienna, where he came strongly under Von Papen's influence. To-day his boss is Von Ribbentrop, economic -since he's attached to the
branch of the Berlin Foreign Office, and he takes orders from no less important. He is in complete control of Germany's economic rela~. tions with all the South-East Euro- pean countries.
one
or
of
To-day Clodius is definitely a mem- A few more days go by and heber of the Nazi Orchestra, even if he pops up unexpectedly in Hungary doesn't make as much noise as some and Italy, trying to borrow railway of the well-known performers. rolling-stock.
Clodius doesn't seek publicity When Carl Clodius arrives in a city l'attract attention to himself by the it becomes overnight the centre of shouting hysterical insults over
work some new German scheme to escape radio like his chiefs,
so his the deadly embrace of the Allied doesn't get the attention it deserves; blockade.
able, hard-working, scrupulous, ingenious, and cunning-
collection of a dangerous enough characteristics in any enemy.
that
He was once the pupil of financial wizard Dr. Schacht; and Clodius in economics, like his master with the Reich finances, is something of a genius at inventing little tricks to postpone the ultimately inevitable crash.
"I have twice travelled in the same | aeroplane as Dr. Clodius between Budapest and Bucarest, and as he sat beside me I had the opportunity to study him closely.
but he's
un-
If I could give two words of ad- vice to those who control Britain's economic warfare against Germany they'd be: "Watch Clodius!"
TRESSES STOLEN
AS SHE SLEPT
I saw a man of 43, tall, but be- ginning to run to fat. He was slight-. A burglar who broke into the home ly pompous in manner of speech, but of Mrs. Bessie May Hennegan in with what I've always called the Charleston, Virginia, U.S.A., cut off "professional good fellow manner." her long braids of hair while she was
Anyhow, his red-faced, back-slap-asleep.
ping type of heartiness seems to Mrs. Hennegan was extremely proud have held him in good stead, for he of her tresses, which extended below has a pretty good record down here her knees.
in the Balkans.
Her husband, who reported the in- He signed successful economic cident to the police, said he thought agreements with Rumania, Bulgaria, he and his wife had been drugged and Greece, and Italy before the war, and that the burglar was someone "who he concluded a new one with
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