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...upheavel to do away with the radical thought brewing among the classes suffering from the consequences of the inflation, the impression was that Hitler would restore the monarchy. A plebiscite held in 1932 would undoubtedly have resulted in a monarchial restoration Dr. Bruening said. But President von Hindenburg refused to permit a plebiscite on the grounds that the crown should not depend on a vote of the people. At present, he added, there is not much hope for a restoration...
...Sinkiang!" With his Hindenburg Line cracked, and with Japanese launching 200 armed flat boats on Lake Tai to shoot up and disorganize lakeside villages, Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek faced at his capital Nanking last week the virtual certainty that Japanese armies would soon sweep around south of Lake Tai, descend on him even if he could keep them from also sweeping around north of the lake and up the Yangtze River. Some 70 Japanese river gunboats were already pounding away at the Chinese boom of sunken junks which was flung across the Yangtze to block it weeks...
...last week succeeded in getting out any details of how greatly things were upside down in the politically more important area between Shanghai and Nanking. Chinese leaders have been talking for weeks about how their troops would be able to hold "for six months" against Japanese onslaughts "the Chinese Hindenburg Line," Fushan-Soochow-Kashing. Its thousands of cement pillbox forts built upon hummocks in swampy terrain appeared most formidable, and bulwark of this Hindenburg Line was Soochow. Fortnight ago Chinese dignitaries appealed to foreigners to urge their governments to ask the Japanese to "spare highly cultured Soochow the horrors...
...travel-30 transatlantic seaplane test flights made in 1937, and 7,000,000 passenger miles flown over the Pacific. Then the report plunges into the economic aspects of air and sea travel, comparing the costs of a liner such as the Normandie, a dirigible 28% bigger than the late Hindenburg and a 40-passenger, 120,000-lb. flying boat.* For U. S. shipyards to build a Normandie would cost $50,000,000. A fleet of dirigibles with the same annual passenger capacity would cost about the same. For just about a third of that sum enough flying boats could...
Back in Germany, Ludecke did his aggressive best to keep Hitler out of bad company (Goring, Goebbels, Hindenburg, the industrialists), thought Roehm and Strasser the likely ones to help him. This proved a bad guess, and in 1933 Ludecke found himself in disfavor. On the day that Ludecke reached Manhattan, having escaped after eight months in a concentration camp as "Hitler's personal prisoner." he read the headlines announcing the Blood Purge. The shock left him rocking precariously on the pavement. But he had salvaged his life and a profitable store of Hitlerian anecdotes...