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...Churchill propose an amendment in language which in fact was a polemic. Clarioned "Winnie" Churchill: "The great new fact that is riveting the attention of every country in Europe and the world is that Germany is rearming!" He estimated that within a year the military air force of the Fatherland-which is forbidden to have any such air force by the Treaty of Versailles-would equal Britain's. ''Ten days of intensive bombing of London would kill or maim 30,000 or 40,000 people, and in a short time...
Then as now Dr. Gördeler was Leipzig's Mayor. Reviled by Nazi orators for years, he is still emphatically no Nazi. His name inspires confidence among middleclass Germans who. fearful of acute shortages in the Fatherland this winter, have lately been buying up foodstuffs and clothing in a frantic rush to hoard (TIME, Aug. 6). One day last week Herr Hitler abruptly raised non-Nazi Mayor Gördeler once more to the rank of Price Dictator, made him "solely responsible to the Realmleader...
...Jaeger has done most of the Reichsbischof's dirty work, tearing around Germany with squads of police, seizing the treasuries of bishops deposed by Dr. Müller. even ordering them locked up by Storm Troopers in their ecclesiastical palaces (TIME, Oct. 22). All this, as the Fatherland knows, was done with the avowed aim of knocking Protestant factions together into a unified National Church. But last week frightened Dr. Jaeger bleated, "I have never used the words 'National Church...
Japanese everlastingly complain that the hairy foreigners* seduce their diplomats by subtle arguments and barrages of press propaganda which beat daily upon the sensitive Japanese who are striving to do their best for Emperor and Fatherland...
...most guests the reception was chiefly important because it revealed that Dr. Otto Meissner is still firmly entrenched as "the Sphinx of the Wilhelmstrasse." This amazing German has been personal State Secretary to every head of the Fatherland since the abdication of Wilhelm II. He was a "Socialist" with President Ebert, a Nationalist with President von Hindenburg and today he seems to be a Nazi with Realmleader Hitler. When stories of German intrigue are spun one of the chief characters is always Meissner. He is supposed to have "made" half the post-War chancellors of the Reich. When Nazis broke...