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...left Berlin two weeks ago, supposedly to doze out the summer at his big manor house in East Prussia, but suddenly last week German statesmen were startled to feel again the enormous weight in high politics of HINDENBURG...
...Claus he has plenty of devoted henchmen to make his purposeful deliveries. If Adolf Hitler came home with a swelled head and hot new ideas for Dictatorship from his visit to Benito Mussolini (TIME, June 25). certainly last week he was dextrously chilled and shrunk-and by the very Hindenburg henchman who first presented him to the President, dapper, nonchalant Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen...
...chilling and shrinking were endowed with Hindenburg might when the President telegraphed "congratulations to my Vice-Chancellor and best comrade" after Lieut.-Colonel von Papen had dared to read to college students at Marburg the first candid and sweeping criticism of Nazi policies voiced by any German statesman since Hitler came to power...
...diary runs from May 1932 to January 1933- from the fall of Brüning to the accession of Hitler. A War Office official, he was apparently in close touch with most of the main political actors; a soldier but obviously no Prussian, he has little love for Hindenburg. His diary is peopled almost entirely with knaves and fools. Nearest approach to a hero is Schleicher, but as even Schleicher's intelligence becomes more & more powerless to stop the Nazis. he is written off as a ''trimmer." Greatest villain of the piece is old Paul von Hindenburg...
...Harvard University $1,000 for a scholarship, Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl, psychic friend of Adolf Hitler, sailed from Germany to attend the 25th reunion of his class at Harvard. In his baggage were said to be busts of German Composer von Gluck, German Philosopher Schopenhauer, German President von Hindenburg...