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...Slesvig is swarming with Danish Nazis financed from Berlin. But the main danger was not last week that Germans may be so foolish as to start any kind of war in 1933. The longer Adolf Hitler waits, the keener his Reichswehr and Storm Troops become, the more arms the Fatherland secretly or openly acquires, the greater will be Germany's chance to strike with success. The danger last week was that Europe might not let Germany wait. In Paris, Warsaw, Prague and Brussels statesmen and strategists pondered anxiously what seemed to some of them the necessity of crushing Hitlerism...
Only members of this class, the Chancellor decreed, may hereafter be called "peasants," which title shall become throughout the Fatherland a badge of honor. To qualify as a "peasant" a German must: 1) prove that none of his family since Jan. 1, 1800 A.D. have been Jews or Negroes; 2) possess a homestead large enough to support a family but not larger than 300 acres...
Prisoned in Germany by the Reichs-bank's embargo on exports of gold and foreign exchange are millions of marks owed to the Fatherland's foreign creditors, notably to such U. S. banks as Manhattan's Chase National. The only way the U. S. banks can move these "blocked marks" is to sell them at a discount in dollars (usually 15%) to tourists or merchants who need marks to spend in Germany, Last spring the North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American ("Hapag") Lines began to accept blocked marks in payment for passage. Passengers who paid in blocked...
Like ''blocked marks," the new scrip is a scheme to stimulate German business at the expense of creditors of the Fatherland willing to take a loss. To get on the Gold Discount Bank's "preferred" list a German exporter will theoretically have to show that he can meet "cutthroat foreign competition" only by receiving the scrip subsidy...
That section of Adolf speech which dealt specifically (and with welcome frankness) with Franco-German relations, ought to have thrown a wet blanket over the hot foreign presses. The Chancellor declared in his best manner that only a madman would even consider a war between France and the Fatherland, since 'the sacrifices entailed were so much less than the losses of conflict." Certainly this should have satisfied Europe. But the last war seems to have spawned a great many political sceptics, whose unkind interpretation of Hitler's argument reads something like this: "War at the moment would be disastrous...