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Another gauge of the Realmleader's bigness this year was the recent scramble of statesmen, as soon as they heard that he was going to convene the Reichstag to make speeches of appeasement, conciliation and even flattery. In thus buttering Der Führer, immaculate British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden led (TIME, Jan. 25). He was followed by French Premier Leon Blum, who as a Socialist and a Jew doubly hates the Nazis. And last week the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, inflexible Neville Chamberlain, who is perhaps to become the next Prime Minister after the Coronation...
...years came last week at Lyons from French Premier Leon Blum. His speech, while proposing nothing specific, was an overture of goodwill toward Germany, hopefully intended to woo Der Führer out of any intention he may have to shake Europe with another violent deed before the Reichstag meets at Adolf Hitler's call Jan. 30. "Our objective," cried Premier Blum, "is for a settlement of European problems as a whole. . . . We are members of the League of Nations, faithful to its principles and loyal to its Covenant! We have linked friendships which we shall maintain . . . contracted obligations...
Died. Dr. Karl August Werner, 60, Supreme Nazi Prosecutor, famed for his thundering accusations at the 1933 Reichstag fire trial; after a bladder operation; in Berlin...
...school children in "the old German paganism"; 7) the Nazi glorification of the Aryan race; 8) antiSemitism; 9) the basic Nazi doctrine of "nationalist utilitarianism" by which only what is good for the State is good; and 10) the falsification of the real results of the so-called 99% Reichstag election last March...
Died. General Karl Litzmann, 86, commander of the Imperial German Army which broke through the Russian Front in 1917, ardent Nazi; of old age; in New Globsow, Pomerania. Because the Reichstag is traditionally opened by its oldest member, Nazis elected Oldster Litzmann a deputy in 1932 to sidetrack Communist Clara Zetkin, then...