Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London it seemed like 1913 again when a great war scare stench was uncorked by Henry Wickham Steed, onetime editor of the London Times. He claimed to have obtained from Berlin official documents showing that for years successive German Governments have had secret agents in London and Paris preparing surveys for bomb, gas and germ raids. According to Mr. Steed, whose acumen and veracity stand high among his countrymen, harmless germ cultures have lately been released in London and Paris subways and the spread of the germs recorded by German agents. Last week the Nazi press bureau retorted: "There...
...Nazi eyes Dr. Goebbels loomed more than ever a possible successor to Herr Hitler as he rushed among the masses last week and drew cheers from large brownshirt gatherings in Berlin with attacks plainly meant for von Papen and his Hindenburg ilk. "My party comrades," cried Dr. Goebbels, "only the National Socialist party has the right to criticize. To all others I deny that right. If we had relied upon those suave cavaliers who see in National Socialism only a transitory phenomenon, Germany would have been lost. The importance of these persons should not be overestimated. If we stamp...
Chancellor Hitler, returning to Berlin from his parley, with President von Hindenburg, banged his big desk for the benefit of a British correspondent and shouted: "At the risk of appearing to talk nonsense I tell you that the Nazi movement will go on for 1,000 years! . . . Don't forget how people laughed at me 15 years ago when I declared that one day I would govern Germany. They laugh now, just as foolishly, when I declare that I shall remain in power...
When news of this reached Berlin peppery Dr. Schacht, boiling with rage, rushed around to the afternoon teaparty for the foreign press and diplomats at the Ministry of Propaganda (see p. 16). "Nobody will expect Germany to accept such a clearance system!" he snapped at the assembled correspondents, reminding them that while Germany has a favorable trade balance with the United Kingdom she has an unfavorable balance with the British Empire as a whole. This fact gave Dr. Schacht a chance to threaten "complete rejection of all further intercourse" with the Empire, should the Kingdom crack down on Germany...
...foreign exchange by decreeing that on each day hereafter no more money will be permitted to leave Germany in payment for imports than is received on that day from abroad in payment for German exports. Simultaneously Germans were deprived of the right to send private money orders abroad. In Berlin representatives of leading U. S. firms who have been greatly hampered by former exchange restrictions called Dr. Schacht's new decrees the last straw and Remington Office Machinery Co. of Berlin closed up with a bang, discharging 300 German employes...