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...domestic affairs in the ham-fists of Hermann Wilhelm Göring who, in effect, became Vice Chancellor under Chancellor Hitler. This was accomplished when Der Führer signed a decree which recalled his promise to the Nurnberg Nazi Party Congress (TIME, Sept. 21) that by 1940 the Fatherland will have been made economically independent of all other countries. Last week the Realmleader vested in General Göring all powers necessary to carry out this vague and sweeping Four-Year Plan...
...case Germany is headed for that economic disaster which, by the wily stratagems of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, the Fatherland has barely avoided so many times, it will be just as well for the blame to burst not upon Herr Hitler but upon Herr Göring, who has been a morphine addict, drinks Gargantuanly and is popular in a bluff, hearty fashion-the sort of man to whom Germans forgive mistakes. Minister-President Göring received last week the following send-off from Der Volkischer Beobachter, the personally-owned newsorgan of Chancellor Adolf Hitler to which all Nazi Party...
...this would be followed by devaluation of the lira, Swiss franc, Dutch guilder, etc. Had Germany known what was coming, Dictator Hitler might have managed to join in and tell the German people that their mark was being devalued in an international concert of Economic Disarmament to which the Fatherland had been admitted with "equality" and "honor." Instead, according to Berlin observers, Herr Hitler felt last week that Dr. Schacht had permitted the Reich to be left momentarily high & dry with the mark overvalued and no way of devaluing it without losing Nazi face before the German people...
...Some foreign creditors of Germany who can get their money in no other way are now taking payment in ships which they can sail away from the Fatherland...
...hrer is the only ruler on the Continent to lift the crushing taxes other European countries impose on motoring. The Fatherland is pushing sales of cars by every means to Germans who know they will be confiscated in wartime and used to speed troops over the strategic highways Herr Hitler is building instead of strategic railways. His reason: cars can detour around a bombed section of road while trains cannot...