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...Nazis call his "Saturday surprises." Abruptly Der Führer sprang a public announcement of the first of five points of agreement secretly reached between Germany and Italy. "The Führer and Chancellor," he disclosed, "has informed the royal Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Ciano . . . that the Reich Government has decided formally to recognize the Italian Empire in Ethiopia...
...last week's decree he was called simply "Minister-President" and to Germans this implied that he has become Premier of all Germany rather than of Prussia only. To him Chancellor Hitler gave authority "to issue decrees and general administrative instructions" to "all administrative organs, including the highest Reich administration, all offices of the Party and its subordinate organizations or associated institutions." This was delegating so much power to Göring that his enormous bulk seemed almost to loom over small Hitler, but the mystic Führer has long toyed with notions of betaking himself upward...
...more especially upon the British and the French for protection against an other onslaught. In recent months the British have not only winked at German violations of the Treaty of Versailles but have compounded with Adolf Hitler by signing an Anglo-German Treaty authorizing Berlin to build a potent Reich Navy (TIME, June 24, 1935). Neither the British nor the French replied with force - the only language the Nazis under stand - when the Rhineland was remilitarized by Dictator Hitler in flagrant violation of the particularly sacred "Spirit of Locarno" (TIME, March 16). Finally Catholic King Leopold, whose sister...
...managed to join in and tell the German people that their mark was being devalued in an international concert of Economic Disarmament to which the Fatherland had been admitted with "equality" and "honor." Instead, according to Berlin observers, Herr Hitler felt last week that Dr. Schacht had permitted the Reich to be left momentarily high & dry with the mark overvalued and no way of devaluing it without losing Nazi face before the German people...
...fact, the German show opened with more of a bang than was intended. At the last moment lawyers discovered that, though property of German individuals and of the German Reich was safe from legal action, holders of defaulted German municipal bonds might possibly be able to seize pictures belonging to German municipal museums. Twenty-six pictures were hastily withdrawn, including two fine Holbeins, a Dűrer, three Altdorfers and two portraits by famed Bartholomaeus Bruyn. In the 81 paintings and 150 drawings left, there was still enough to make the show one of the most important...