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...Krupp von Bohlen was the ousting from the ministries of economics and industry last week of two Nazis supposed to be rabidly Socialistic, Otto Wagner and Alfred Muller. Finally all talk of a "Second Revolution" among Nazi radicals was vigorously spiked by Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick in a circular letter to the Statthalters (Hitler-appointed "Viceroys" of all the German states...
Next day, with lean, fanatical Minister of Interior Wilhelm Frick at the throttle, the Hitler juggernaut moved to squash flat what remained of the German Socialist Party, most of whose leaders had already fled the Reich. Long before Chancellor Hitler came to power, Nazi Frick as Minister of Culture and Interior in Thuringia made every schoolchild in that State kneel down every day and pray "Oh God. I believe Thou punishest the traitor and blessest the Liberator of our Homeland. Free us from deceit and treason!" Last week Dr. Frick denounced the entire Socialist Party as "treasonable . . . subversive and inimical...
Seats held by Socialists in the Reichstag, where they are the second largest party, were declared abrogated. All over Germany last week Socialist deputies were ousted from State diets. Finally membership in the Socialist Party was decreed by Dr. Frick to be "naturally incompatible with State employees' receiving salaries, wages or pensions from the public funds." Thus Socialists hereafter must either serve the State without pay or quit their jobs...
...Officially announced last week was the long-rumored purchase of famed Overholt Distillery by National Distillers (TIME, June 12). Founded two years before the War of 1812, Overholt was family-owned until the go's when control passed to Andrew William Mellon and Henry Clay Frick. In 1925 it was acquired by David Albert Schulte, cigarstore tycoon...
That afternoon he had had a secret conference with Old Paul von Hindenburg (still head of the German State, still able, technically, to demand the resignation of Chancellor Hitler) to which not Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath but Nazi Minister of the Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick was the third party. Now he had to write a speech that was not for Germany alone, but for the entire world to hear. Hours passed, the door remained locked. At 4 a. m. the tired secretary emerged to say that the first draft had been completed...