Word: kaiserhof
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...Chase National Bank, hurrying to defend the interests of U. S. holders of German short-term credits against the demand of France that Reparations be given priority (TIME, Dec. 7). To Berlin just ahead of Banker Wiggin hurried Politician Hitler. Flinging himself into a big armchair at the Kaiserhof Hotel on the afternoon that Wall Street had its Hitler scare, he surprisingly declared: "Germany cannot pay both her political [Reparations] and her commercial [short-term credit] debts. For my part I reject the payment of political debts which are the result of extortion and have no legal basis...
Lambasting France from his Kaiserhof armchair last week, fiery Fascist Hitler boomed: "As a party we emphatically reject the system of political extortion indulged in by a nation saturated with arms and gold! . . . We are not Carthage nor is France Rome, and it should be recalled that Rome subdued Carthage single handed" (i.e. France subdued Germany only with the aid of allies who may yet desert France...