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...fortune (estimated at $175,000,000), hard hit by the fall of the dollar and pound, had dwindled sadly. Final blow was Germany's embargo on money except in minuscule amounts. Old Wilhelm was not getting his German rents. His secretaries were commuting between Doom and the Reich, bringing out all the cash the law allowed at each trip. Still it was not enough. In fact, the man whom Germans used to think of as their richest countryman was hard up. A Kaiser no longer, he was still the head of a Royal House, responsible for the miniature court...
...wild shouts of: "We don't want Bergner! We don't want Jewish actresses-the Judah of Paris!" More eggs spattered on placards and against the lights. Finally, just when it looked as if the affair would turn into one of the worst riots of the Third Reich. Nazi Commander Ernst Roehm of the Berlin Storm Troops persuaded the mob to quiet down. Reenforcements of police blocked the street at both ends, dispersed the crowd before the audience, which waited inside ten minutes to cheer Cinemactress Bergner, emerged. Next day the real significance of the disturbance became apparent...
...Rotogravure section of the . . . Tribune of October 22, 1933 there appeared under the title 'Two pictures of Hitler' two photographs, one purporting to be a 'baby picture' of the present Chancellor of the German Reich . . . and the other showing the Chancellor addressing 500,000 farmers and storm troopers...
What all were waiting for was the first overt move on the part of Germany. A Nazi Austria openly ruled from Berlin means more than the addition of 7,000,000 souls to the German Reich. It means that: 1) French-supported Czechoslovakia would be surrounded by Nazi land on three sides; 2) Germany would come down to the Brenner Pass and be only 100 miles from the Adriatic; 3) German minorities in Jugoslavia's Slovenia and Croatia would receive all the backing that Austrian Nazis have had; 4) Hungary and Rumania would be the next objects of Nazi...
...Bismarck's Second Reich did not interfere with the frontiers of the various States. This was one great error of the Second Reich. It is the historic task of our time," said he, "to create a powerful, national, unified State in place of the federal State existing heretofore. In the new Germany there is no place for federal States or for the borders they had. . . . Such institutions might even have a pernicious effect nowadays as a stimulus to Monarchist Party aims which are inimical to the people...