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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...
...German industry, and big Austrian industrialists recently sat up all night in his legation with Dr. Schacht, president of the Reichsbank. as the pot simmered (TIME, June 29). One day last week Adolf Hitler slipped out of Berlin, ensconced himself near Austria's frontier among the motto-encrusted sofa cushions of his snuggery at Berchtesgaden, and von Papen laid before him the whole Deal, as concocted by Mussolini and Schuschnigg, Schacht and von Papen. The German Dictator decided to sign...
...purpose all four organizations are similar. Rotary's original motto was "Service before Self." To this was later added: "He profits most who serves best." Kiwanians say: "We build." Lions hold to "Liberty: Intelligence: The Nation's Safety." Civitans are "builders of good citizenship." Individual clubs admit one member of each profession or business classification in the community, except Kiwanis, which admits two. Civitans restrict membership to "white Caucasians," will take as many ministers as apply...
Pomp for Hoare. Motto of the House of Hoare is Hora Venit, and last week it seemed indeed that the hour of Sir Samuel and Lady Maud had come. They were still in their big house at No. 18 Cadogan Gardens, but the estate agent's sign over their door read cheerfully: "LONG LEASE FOR SALE." An army of re-furbishers was busy in Admiralty House on Whitehall, cleaning and redecorating the official residence of the First Lord. Its 20 rooms are lofty, dignified and spacious, ideal for entertaining in the grand manner of the British Admiralty...
...Soak the Rich!" Although Communist supporters of the Blum Cabinet demanded an immediate soak-the-rich confiscation of part of all great French fortunes last week, Socialist Finance Minister Vincent Auriol backed water so much from this position that his motto might have been, ''Don't Soak the Rich...