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...will. In flying to Neudeck last week Herr Hitler had not come to report. He had come to tell Herr von Hindenburg to put his mighty autograph* on a state paper accepting the resignation of the first "Safeguard Minister" to be forced out by Nazi pressure. Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, Germany's greatest press & cinema tycoon who had been Minister of Agriculture & Economics. The President yielded with extreme reluctance. Then, President & Chancellor talked deeply of the fate of German Protestantism (see below). There was no accounting of the Chancellor's stewardship, not Adolf Hitler, not Paul von Hindenburg...
...steel helmet troopers, whom Adolf Hitler once barred from joining his Storm detachments, were told that they must join the brownshirt Storm Battalions and obey hereafter only Chancellor Hitler. Similarly dissolved and merged were the 10,000 green-shirted youths organized by Nationalist Leader Dr. Alfred Hugenberg as his party's "Battle Ring...
Calling the green Battle Ringers contemptuously Frösche ("frogs"),* Nazi brownshirts padlocked their headquarters, carried off "Frog" Herbert von Bismarck for a night of grilling questions. Ironically the presses of Frog Chief Dr. Alfred Hugenberg. the Fatherland's newspaper tycoon who made World news fortnight ago by demanding the return to Germany of her pre-War colonies by the London Conference (see p. 17). were obliged to print with an approving tone last week that "The Chancellor received Dr. Hugenberg tonight with no others present and explained to him the reasons for the Battle Ring's suppression...
...Hugenberg, No. 1 German cinema & press tycoon, said: "We Germans are the poor devils and have nothing more to lose. From the German viewpoint wise and peaceful co-operation between debtor and creditor countries might include two large-minded measures whereby Germany's capacity to make international payments might be increased. One of these steps would be to give Germany again colonial domain in Africa, which might be used by her as a basis for . . . great works and construction...
...German Foreign Office correspondents were told that while Dr. Hugenberg's speech "cannot be regarded as stating the official position of the German Government," nevertheless; it "sets forth fundamental considerations which undoubtedly will figure in the coming negotiations...