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...Herr Hitler made the ironic announcement that the northern end of Sylt, a 23-mile sandspit off the Danish-German border, was closed to visitors because it was now a, "bird sanctuary." Every one knew that Sylt's birds were mechanical fowl, their eggs bombs, their nests at List and Westerland protected by coast artillery. One night last week Danes witnessed the bombing of a row of flares set in Rantum Bay to guide Nazi raiders home, another night saw a bomb hit the Hindenburg Dam, a causeway over tidal flats connecting Sylt with the mainland. Danish observers...
...swan-song speech in Salzburg, Herr Funk bore this inference out: "The National Socialist Government declines to cover war costs by means of the printing press." He urged rather popular savings, not of Sachwerte (real wealth) but of marks and pfennigs. "Some people are hoarding even bathtubs, although they can neither eat them, wear them around their necks, nor pay taxes with them." Why Herr Funk put taxes in a class with food and adornment, as something every good German should enjoy, was made clear by his hints that the Government might soon have to levy some new taxes. Best...
...semi-official Vierjahres-plan-for "an organization achievement of the greatest dimensions." The achievement: devising a General Economic Council which, in effect, kicked himself out as Germany's No. 1 Government economist, and put Field Marshal Hermann Göring in. Effusiveness of the praise which was given Herr Funk made it look suspiciously as if he was being eased out, and given credit as a face-saver...
...Herr Funk, always known as a Göring henchman, had by this shift given his portly hero more administrative titles and more actual power than any other man in Germany, including Adolf Hitler. Hermann Göring is now President of the General Economic Council, Chief of the National Defense Council, Administrator of the Four-Year Plan, Air Minister, Supreme Commander of the Air Force, Prime Minister of Prussia, President of the Reichstag, Reich Hunting Master, Reich Fishing Master. Walther Funk retained his posts as Economics Minister and Reichsbank President, but his jurisdictions were cut, his staff reduced...
...only foreign exchange did Herr Bolten's principals seek in their naïve offering. They sought to get out from under the drain of port charges on their idle ships and upkeep of their idle crews. Allied shipping quarters last week estimated that Germany still had tied up throughout the world, 400 to 500 ships, with some 1,800,000 tons of needed car goes, which were running up charges at ?330,000 per month for harbor dues alone. To this situation could be added unrest among unpaid, underfed crews, to explain why, in recent weeks, one Nazi...