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...Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht (TIME, June 25). To bring Dr. Schacht to his senses the Commons, well aware that Germany has a favorable trade balance with Great Britain, passed a bill enabling Chancellor Chamberlain to confiscate enough British payments due on German goods to make good the Fatherland's announced default on Dawes and Young bond interest payments. By brandishing this authority from the Commons last week, Chancellor Chamberlain scared Berlin into a promise to make full interest payment on the bonds concerned for the next six months...
Instead red-eyed von Papen begged a word with Herr Hitler away from his Nazis. When this was granted he offered his resignation, protesting, "My service to the Fatherland is over!" As von Papen drove away, still guarded, official Berlin considered him an ex-Vice Chancellor and workmen began ripping down partitions in his offices. In moved the new Chief of Staff of the blood-purified Storm Troops, leather-lunged Viktor Lutze...
Such was Berlin's state of nerves that whispers had the President already dead. Adolf Hitler took along his personal cameraman to snap pictures which would convince the Fatherland's last doubting Otto...
Hoch Siam! Hoch Siam! To take German minds off what the Chancellor was hatching every newsorgan in the Fatherland was ordered to play up as biggest news of the week a royal visit to President von Hindenburg by weak-eyed little King Prajadhipok of Siam and his equally short but amply curvesome Queen Rambui Barni. Oscar and the other venerable storks of East Prussia had not seen such pomp since Kaiser Wilhelm's day. Two private cars of the German State Railways sped Their Majesties out from Berlin, across the hated Polish Corridor (an emotional barrier...
...effort to conserve the Fatherland's dwindling store of foreign exchange-sure to be needed to buy vital food imports next winter-Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht recently decreed a sweeping moratorium (TIME. June 25). Last week British threats of retaliation broke the moratorium as far as British holders of Dawes and Young loan bonds are concerned (see p. 15). This breach in the Moratorium Front looked certain to widen before onslaughts at once launched by the U. S. and French Embassies in Berlin. There seemed to be only one answer for Germany: controlled inflation, bulwarked by government control...