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...whole string of generals and Army officers of various ranks were retired or shifted to new commands last week by decision of the Führer. The whole crisis arose and was dealt with in a manner typical of the way nearly all great matters in the Fatherland today turn upon personal contacts with Adolf Hitler and his personal reactions. Much of the time the Führer is inaccessible to even extremely prominent officials, mystically cogitating in his Bavarian mountain retreat some 400 miles from Berlin. To get the ear of the Leader, much less to secure...
...Hamburg last week the Nazi judge of non-Aryan Shipowner Arnold Bernstein (TIME, Nov. 29, et ante) made sure that the Fatherland will secure possession of the Red Star and Arnold Bernstein Lines (Garage Ships). At the end of a complex trial the court fined him $400,000, sentenced him to two and a half years in jail...
...dock Prisoner Bernstein had confessed to many technical sins of omission & commission, such as can scarcely be avoided by anyone doing big business through the Fatherland's bewildering network of foreign exchange restrictions. The State had demanded a fine of $1,800,000 and imprisonment for five years. Hence...
...Crusades, defeated her and captured European kings. Egypt threw British troops into the sea. Egypt's southern boundary extends as far as the equator. Egypt is the centre of the world, the Mother of Civilization, and the Cradle of all religions. Your motto must be: 'Allah, the Fatherland and the King...
...Cabinet 83-10-4 but accepted the decree. In the Chamber, just as His Majesty's decree was about to be read by the Speaker, Dr. Ahmad Maher, irate ex-Premier El Nahas leaped up and tried to make a speech which began "In the name of the Fatherland. . . ." Tumult erupted, the police were called and the lights of the Chamber were extinguished, but the deputies, milling about in semidarkness, managed to keep the prorogation order from being read, voted nonconfidence 180-to-17. The police, ordered to eject the deputies by force, mutinously refused. Finally the deputies dispersed...