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...such parts of the Baltic regions and the Ukraine as would fall to an even moderately successful German drive. A preliminary Nazi move, much mooted today in European military circles, would be to attempt to nip off the small, German-speaking western tip of Czechoslovakia "restoring it to the Fatherland...
...professionally and describe it in print, former art critics must now obtain a license from Dr. Goebbels. His decree was issued partly because the crushingly-propagandized German cinema industry is now playing to nearly empty houses while Germans crowd to see the few U. S. films admitted to their Fatherland. This state of affairs Dr. Goebbels chooses to blame on his country's cinema critics...
...living French officers of Salengro's regiment all say today in Paris that he was a deserter, and they ought to know. Friends retorted that, in Germany, Prisoner Salengro organized an attempted revolt of 40 other French prisoners and for this got two years in one of the Fatherland's jails, which in France should be in his favor.* Enemies kept screaming that Salengro must be investigated by a Court of Honor but in the Chamber of Deputies fortnight ago, after a fisticuffing, shin-kicking fight, the Deputies voted 427-10-103 complete vindication of the Minister...
More than a snook was cocked at the British Navy last week when the German Navy officially admitted for the first time that it is secretly building a warship of the largest size, the Ersatz Hannover of 35,000 tons. This will be the Fatherland's first fullsize capital ship since the Great War. Two days after the Ersatz Hannover was officially announced, Berlin's semi-official military weekly sprang the further revelation that yet another 35,000-tonner will be rushed to completion to help cock the German national snook...
...erected this state of affairs into a German institution with imposing trappings. Another reason for Göring's appointment to rule the economy of Germany was that as a soldier he will be deaf to any policy of economy in the Army, Navy or Air Force. The Fatherland, under Göring & Schacht, is headed more than ever for "war-preparation-prosperity." Nephew Herbert Göring, hitherto obscure, now sits at Dr. Schacht's right hand, an important Reichsbank official. As a sop to Nazi radicals, Agriculture Minister Darre was given a seat on a Cabinet...