Otherswouldclaim that woe was sure to befall suchadisparatecurrencyunionsooner or later: ifnotGreece, then some otherweakmemberof the club would have been the cause.
And the announcement a month later of a non-aggression treaty between Germany and the Soviet Union gave Tokyo even more cause for concern.
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That alone is bad news for Barack Obama, at a time when blue collar and union support has fallen significantly enough from 2008 levels to causea wave of worry.