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...France and Britain immediate popular and press reaction seemed to be "now everything is up to Hitler." If Der Reichsführer was sincere in his professions of peace and nonaggression, now was Germany's chance to enter negotiations leading to recognition of her rearmament rights, plus simultaneous agreements which should nail down all Europe's more important frontiers and preclude the possibility of any nation suffering unprovoked air attack...
...pact to end war in Eastern Europe by mutually guaranteeing all frontiers. This week Louis Barthou's successor. Foreign Minister Pierre Laval, must try to carry on. In French eyes no situation could be simpler: if Adolf Hitler is sincere in his peace protestations, then Der Reichsführer should sign the Eastern Locarno Pact; if Handsome Adolf is insincere, then there is all the more reason why Germany's neighbors should sign, encircling Deutschland with a cordon sanitaire...
...week der Reichsführer stayed snug in his Bavarian mountain retreat. Such is popular ignorance under the Nazi system of "guided news," that in Berlin crowds gathered every day outside the Realmleader's office in Wilhelmstrasse, shouting plaintively from time to time, "Leader, dear Leader, come out to us!" Stolid police saw no reason why they should explain that the Dear Leader was some 400 miles away. Exultant Berlin papers hailed him as the greatest vote-getter of all time, far greater than Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Now the world could no longer scoff, Germans exulted, at German election...
...five French civilians privileged to know the Army's secrets. His party is the Radical Socialist, largest in the Chamber. Deputies leaped to their feet with spontaneous cheers and War Minister General Maurin smiled grimly as Rapporteur Archimbaud reached the climax of his careful statement: "Reichsführer Adolf Hitler has tried to set against Soviet Russia her natural enemies-Poland and Japan. Realizing that this might endanger the peace of Europe, Russia and France have wished to safeguard their liberty. It is undeniable that an understanding exists between them." Tumult and shouts of Vive la France...
Lately beefy, foppish Premier Göring has had two paramount worries: 1) Is Reichsführer Adolf Hitler going to name him as "Deputy" or Vice-Realmleader (TIME, Sept. 17) to step into Hitler's shoes in case of death? 2) Is Comrade Dimitroff, now safe in U. S. S. R., organizing a plot to assassinate him? Last week smart Dimitroff answered both questions in Moscow in his own inspired way. Said he: "I am not interested in killing Göring because eventually Hitler will...