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1931--Germany at the Brink

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  Enormous propaganda efforts were invested in making making it appear the financial collapse of the world's largest pharma and chemical industries just happened to coincide with the 1931 League of Nations dope convention throttling Germany's production and output ( link ) On 12JUL1931, German officials realized the failure of the  Damstadter und Nationalbank could not be concealed. Fortunately, the press refrained from linking the Nordwolle wool mills collapse with the tons of morphine loaded into packed woolens aboard the USS Milwaukee at the nearby port of Hamburg, just as they mentioned no such link with the Bank of United States and Alesia dope cargo. Still, the news article announcing  US READY TO ASK BIDS FOR 11 WAR VESSELS could hardly have been reassuring.( link ) Experienced observers had to realize their current fix had grown out of China's bid for U.S. assistance enforcing prohibition worldwide after witnessing the way Teddy Roosevelt's gendarmes strugg...

1931 Drugs, Banks and Crashes

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  April 19, 1931, a shipment of drug-laden German woolens aboard the USS Milwaukee docked at NY. Six days later papers reported it contained 3 tons of narcotics shipped in woolens from Hamburg in northern Germany. The situation mirrored the Bank of United States failure as 5 tons of morphine sat on the docks in a stakeout at the French liner Alesia. The graph shows German gold reserves and Young Plan reparations payments bonds crashing in value following the news. Bank of United States trials were all over the news that week as well .  Peter Temin, whose graph is above , is the same economist who pointed out the U.S. stock market began crashing the first week of September 1929. This was the week the League of Nations received planetary dope prohibition marching orders from its Opium Advisory Committee. In the above chart, failing bets on Germans paying war reparations coincide with the Nordwolle woolens bust, recover momentarily with the Moratorium on Brains and continue down...