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...German Government or the German people! In that case the German people might lose interest in paying at all!" What the Great Powers really ought to do, declared Dr. Schacht as a parting shot, is to return Germany's colonies before asking the Fatherland to pay another pfennig...
...propagate their kind, is nothing less than cruelty to the nation!" Quietly last week Nazi relief workers let it be known that families tainted with cancer, tuberculosis and particularly venereal diseases will be taken care of last, while the healthy destitute receive first call. Jews will receive not a pfennig of the Chancellor's 500,000,000 marks, but have the privilege of helping each other through the Jewish Relief Bureau. Communists, denied the right to organize a Red Relief Bureau, can aid their destitute only by stealth...
...love nest. Pinneberg pulled what wires came to hand and became a salesman in a slave-driving department store. Bunny luckily turned out to be a good manager. They left his shameless mother's flat, got a tiny apartment almost as cheap as it was inconvenient, counted every pfennig twice before they let go. But shortly after the baby was born Pinneberg was fired. They moved out to a hut in the country; Bunny went out washing by the day; Pinneberg minded the baby and tried to keep from stealing. Author Fallada leaves it an open question whether Bunny...
...usury"), expulsion of Jews from Germany, confiscation of department stores and the parceling out of their different departments to small merchants: these are but three pledges mouthed at Nazi mass meetings. More basic are the Party's pledges to "scrap" the Treaty of Versailles and pay not a pfennig more in Reparations-but all German statesmen have those aims...
...sion, which affects him actually, than in Reparations which he only reads about. French unemployment increased by 16,000 in the past week alone. Luxury trades are prostrate; the mining industry is on part time. L'Oetivre (Radical Paris daily) put the matter bluntly with its headline: NOT ONE PFENNIG? NOT ONE CENT!! If this was to be the end of Reparations, let it be the end of debt payments also. London too was anxious to switch the entire burden to U. S. shoulders. Commented the Sunday Times...