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Rockefeller looked down from the wall of Jersey Standard's oak-lined boardroom in Rockefeller Center, President Michael L. Haider (rhymes with wider), 60, for the first time tested the huge leather chair of the chairman and chief executive. As expected, chair and chairman seemed to fit each other nicely...
Rough to Smooth. Haider will head a company ten times bigger than the "octopus" that the Supreme Court forced...
...Hitler's death in the ruins of Berlin is not so hard to believe as his continued survival through a dozen years of intraparty intrigue. As far back as 1938, German bigwigs planned their first Putsch. In on the deal, according to Gisevius, were Chief of Staff Franz Haider, General Erwin von Witzleben and a string of other generals. Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht, Major General Hans Oster (the brains of Wehrmacht counterintelligence) and Author Gisevius himself were among the conspirators. The calendar, he says, explains why the plot failed. Putsch day was set to coincide with the march...
...must also state that the defeat in White Russia is not the only example of Hitler's ineptitude as a commander. When Field Marshals von Leeb, List, von Rundstedt, von Bock and von Brauchitsch, Colonel General Haider and many others attempted to point out these mistakes Hitler dismissed them from their posts. . . . The newer generals, however, such as Rommel, Dietl, Schorner, Keitel and others who had not gone through a long military schooling failed to perceive these mistakes...
...were many indications that the Wehrmacht's Prussian aristocracy was fed up with Hitler intuition and Gestapo intrusion. But there were striking inconsistencies in the stories from Germany-the same kind of inconsistencies which have marked such reports since 1940. Example: a commonly accepted story has been that Haider & Co. fell out with Hitler over the Russian campaign and urged him to withdraw while there still was time. Yet Gustav Siegfried Eins, reporting Haider's dismissal, said the immediate reason was that last autumn he opposed a proposal to withdraw from Russia and concentrate...