The American policy of Germany before 1937 was to remain neutral and refuse to intervene the internal and external affairs of Germany.

在第一阶段，持中立立场拒绝干预德国内外事务；

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Administration Dept. : be responsible for receiving and sending files, archives management, internal administrative affairs and external coordination;

行政部：负责文件收发、档案管理，内部行政事务，对外协调；

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But if goods, services, capital, and businessmen begin to circulate freely around the region, the line between internal and external affairs will blur.

ECONOMIST: Noodle soup

So far these still include, at least temporarily, the power to legislate, to control the state budget and to dominate a new national security council overseeing internal as well as external security, though apparently not foreign affairs.

ECONOMIST: Egypt��s president