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Exactly what Chancellor Heinrich Brüning might have expected when he ballyhooed Germany's fiscal depression and growing radicalism on his visit to England, came to pass last week...
...Majesty's private secretary Sir Clive Wigram. Hostess No. 1 was famed Miss Ishbel MacDonald, charity worker. Hostess No. 2 was obscure Miss Sheila MacDonald, bicycle rider, basketballer. Lunch was the merriest Dr. Bruning has eaten in a long time. As a friend of his once said: "Heinrich is more than Spartan, he is monastic...
Three years ago the obscure name of Heinrich Brüning was not in Germany's Who's Who. He was born in 1885 at Munster in Westphalia, son of a distiller who knew for certain the names of his prosperous ancestors as far back as the 16th Century...
...Heinrich had a brother who became a priest, lived much of his life in America, died in New York City in 1924. Heinrich, after winning degrees at the Universities of Strasbourg, Munich and Bonn, traveled widely and intensively in Europe, visited his brother in America, went home and looked about for a Catholic duty to per form...
...times. . . . Imagine their disgust, then, to find themselves confronted with the possibility of increased taxes!" This possibility Chancellor Brüning has made an actuality, raising taxes again and again, raising them a fourth time last week. Knowing the extreme depth of German disgust, advertising it to the world. Heinrich Brüning must have anxiously asked himself as he returned to Berlin: "Is it my Catholic duty to proclaim myself Dictator...