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...Last week the Vegetarian Superman flew over Poland's hated Corridor to a big cozy country house at Neudeck in East Prussia. There he gripped hands with that hearty eater of tenderloin steaks, pork sausages, pigs-knuckles and chopped raw beef & onions, President Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg. In a sense the meeting was historic. It marked a knife line between the original Hitler Cabinet containing "Safeguard Ministers"-old & trusted friends of Der Reichspräsident-and a new Hitler Cabinet which the events of the week showed will be without safeguards and 100% harmonized with the Nazi...
...floor of Germany's remodeled, modernistic Chancellery is Adolf Hitler's private roof garden, bright with pansies, geraniums, potted shrubs. Last week Nazi staff chiefs gathered on this Hitler Olympus which overlooks the garden of President von Hindenburg. Joyously they received orders to make Germany at once what Chancellor Hitler called a "Totalitarian (One Party) State." Then they rushed clown from the roof garden to terrify the Fatherland with a series of pouncing raids which resulted in taking into custody even Herbert von Bismarck, grandnephew of the late famed Iron Chancellor...
...suggestions that the Government's acts exceeded last week even the broad powers conferred on Chancellor Hitler by President von Hindenburg's Decree for the Protection of the People and the State, Dr. Goebbels snorted: "A government conscious of its own responsibility must also know how to break the fetters...
...might be interested to know also that I saw TIME on the Crown-Prince's writing table when I interviewed him at 36 Unter den Linden in mid-March: and also on the magazine table of President Hindenburg, although the latter's secretary informed me your magazine was "very inaccurate...
That afternoon he had had a secret conference with Old Paul von Hindenburg (still head of the German State, still able, technically, to demand the resignation of Chancellor Hitler) to which not Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath but Nazi Minister of the Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick was the third party. Now he had to write a speech that was not for Germany alone, but for the entire world to hear. Hours passed, the door remained locked. At 4 a. m. the tired secretary emerged to say that the first draft had been completed...