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...Princess Sibylle to the eldest son of Sweden's Crown Prince (TIME. Oct. 10). Backed by the banker, the tycoon, the duke and by a large plurality of German voters, Leader Hitler was nevertheless unable last week to persuade President von Hindenburg to appoint him Chancellor of the Reich...
They must therefore continue their toasts in expensive red wine "to the long life of President von Hindenburg!" and try as hard as possible to "tame" Adolf Hitler further. He was offered last August the Premiership of Prussia, the Vice Chancellorship of the Reich, three Federal Cabinet posts. He turned down all offers in hopes of winning a straight Nazi majority in the Reichstag...
...French aim is to draw Russia out of her former close friendship with Germany, a maneuver made possible by the fact that the Reich now has a "Cabinet of Monocles," extreme reactionaries who are anathema to Communists. France, though no real friend of Russia, hopes to stimulate her trade with the Soviet Union, especially in view of London's trade rebuff to Moscow last week (see p. 15) and at all costs France wants to isolate Germany from Soviet military...
...that time no united Germany or reich existed, and the words were unquestionably an appeal to the Germanic peoples to place "[united] Germany above all [other ideals], above all in the World!" After Bismarck achieved the ideal of unity by creating the German Empire, many of the Kaiser's subjects sang the old song in the sense of "Germany, Germany above all [other lands], above all in the World!" Some German pacifists object as strongly to Deutschland, Deutschland iiber Alles as do U. S. pacifists to "the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting...
...back to Paris in the fourgons [supply wagons] of the Allied armies in 1815 has a regime existed in any major European country so cordially detested by the mass of the people it claims to rule as the clique of generals, Junkers [landed proprietors] and aristocratic clubmen governing the Reich today...