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Ensconced among the motto-stitched cushions of his rustic snuggery at Berchtesgaden, Adolf Hitler, ever since the close of the Olympic Games, has been receiving numbers of mysterious visitors. To judge from the opulence of their sharp-nosed Mercédès limousines, most of them were bigwigs of the Nazi Reich who are privileged to come & go without a word of their movements in the German Press. Last week everything was ready for Hitler & Co. to execute one of the complicated kiss-kick-and-wheedle Nazi plays which European statesmen find so difficult to deal with...
...hunters; tall, blond, mighty-muscled Nazi youths in civilian clothes, appeared suddenly on the Kurfürstendamm but seemed at first not to know quite what to do. Soon group leaders dashed up in snorting Mercédès and the Jew hunt was on, a peculiar feature being that the sidewalk crowds joined in a hunting chant taught them by the hunters. This was roared out one line at a time by the group leaders, all present then repeating in a fervent chant: Perish Jew! Get the Hell out! Blood-running noses! The best Jew is a dead...
...great Berlin office of Mercédés-Daimler-Bentz there was high glee last week as Nazi automotive engineers chuckled over observations made in Manhattan by President William B. Stout of the American Society of Automotive Engineers. "The best way to make the present day car ride easy," declared President Stout, "is to put a lot of weight in the back end. Four hundred pounds of cement in the back seat helps a lot, but if we can put the engine back there and save the weight of the cement we get a better ride, better traction...
Since just such a rear-engine car is now in its second year of sleek production by Mercédés, Nazis might well smirk at President Stout's exhortation to the U. S. automotive industry to pull itself together and build likewise. Standardized U. S. cars he found "so alike . . . that a price war has started which eventually must ruin the industry if economic history is right. . . . What is needed at this stage is not so much intellectualism that can design the car, or intelligence that can run the firm, but somebody who is 'smart...