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...other world" knows by now not to take Herr Hitler's speeches of satiety seriously, but for those who believed that he would have to take a nap after swallowing both Czecho-Slovakia and Memel, there came a significant revision in the official text of the speech handed out to the press. In the revised version the above passage ended considerably more abruptly: "But the suffering that it inflicted on us must come...
...Herr Hitler dispatched to Signor Benito Mussolini a message assuring him that the German people would "stand shoulder to shoulder with the battle-proved Italian nation in defense against all hateful and incomprehensible attempts to restrict the justified will for living of our two peoples...
...Meanwhile, Herr Hitler planned to remain in the big new Chancellery at Berlin until April i, when he is to go to Wilhelmshaven to launch a new 35,000-ton battleship. He is then to go to his mountain retreats in Bavaria, but is to return to Berlin in time for his soth birthday, April...
...long distracted German financial experts (except Hjalmar Schacht, who controlled currency with a firm hand). Latest to crack under the strain is Reichsbank Vice President Dr. Rudolf Brinkmann, who lasted less than four weeks in office. One day just before he was sent to a sanatorium for a rest, Herr Brinkmann was feeling on top of the world. Carefully going through the personnel of the Reichsbank and picking out many of the most talented men, he called them together. He also summoned a brass band. "Play a march," he said to the band. They played a march. When they...
...Government was especially anxious to obtain for the "Stop Hitler" declaration were those of Poland, Russia and France. Count Edward Raczynski, the Polish Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, soon told British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax that such a toothless declaration was meaningless, would only anger Herr Hitler. He suggested that Britain initiate conscription and sign a military alliance...