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...their first meeting last August, upstart Herr Hitler was not so much as invited to sit down, despite the fact that he represented 230 Reichstag Deputies, by far the largest party in the Fatherland...
...message: "Do not lose hope until the final goal is reached: With God for Kaiser and Fatherland...
Jail Delivery. Under the widest amnesty granted in Germany since the Revolution of 1918, more than 10,000 political jailbirds - mostly Communists and Fascists-were let out of the Fatherland's jails on Christmas Eve or earlier in the week. This liberal gesture, designed to win popularity for the Cabinet of essentially unpopular and aristocratic General Kurt von Schleicher, was completed in able Santa-Claus fashion by giving each jailbird enough money to pay his carfare home and buy a Christmas dinner. Prisoners arrested in summer were given a winter overcoat, mittens...
...that in 1933 his new Ministry for Re-employment will spend two billion, seven hundred million marks ($642,600,000) to make work for Germany's unemployed who now stand at the staggering total of 5,600,000-or more than one-quarter of all workers in the Fatherland...
Spicing his speech with a bit of secret history, Chancellor von Schleicher told a story on himself & Cabinet which made the Fatherland chuckle. Two of his ministers, he said, recently quarreled. Minister of Agriculture Baron Friedrich Edler von Braun insisted on retention of Germany's high agricultural tariffs, while Minister of Economics (Industry) Professor Dr. Hermann Warmbold demanded agricultural free trade...