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...power by persuading Stalin that the Dictator's life was being menaced by Russia's former Secret Police Chief Yagoda, recently executed (TIME, March 28). The quickest, most dangerous way to climb in Russia is by persuading the Dictator that a new set of his most trusted henchmen have just turned against him, and recently there have been signs that ambitious Soviet Vice Premier Kosior was busy along this same line...
...Schuschnigg was secretly dispatched by prominent Austrians to confer at Munich with Hitler's Nazi henchmen, Heinrich Himmler and Rudolf Hess. He went back to Vienna convinced that the Nazis would never offer Austria honorable terms of voluntary association with Germany...
...other eight Socialist ministers. This automatically wrecked the Cabinet. The hour was 4:30 a. m. Premier Chautemps bundled his Cabinet into a motorcade which brought them before cockcrow to hand all their resignations to sad-eyed President Albert Lebrun. "Blum will be the next Premier!" exulted his Socialist henchmen and Communist friends...
...Development Association along these lines: "The tourists dislike riots. As you are an Egyptian patriot, will you not keep your Greenshirts from rioting during the tourist season?" Mahmoud agreed. Since then Cairo's tourist season has been almost completely free of riots, but the new Premier's henchmen have redoubled their efforts in other ways. This patriotic restraint has not affected the Fascistic zealotry of the new Premier and his followers, best exemplified by some of their propaganda slogans...
...Henchmen of Minister President General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, autocrat of the German Four-Year Plan of Rearmament and Autarchy, have long since occupied the Ministry of Economics (TIME, Sept. 27 et seq.), yet Berlin correspondents have been unable to get confirmation that Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht has actually resigned as Minister of Economics. Last week Dr. Schacht went to a cocktail party staged in farewell to U. S. Consul General Douglas Jenkins who is being transferred from Berlin to London...