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...curtailing pri vate property rights in measure after measure ; 9 ) the taking over by the executive bureaus of the attributes and func tions of sovereignty: "the bureaus become the de facto 'law makers.' " Burnham believes that the gradual reduction of parliaments (the congress of Soviets, the Reichstag) to a mere sounding board is an essential feature of the managerial revolution. "With occasional petty rebellions," Congress, he notes, has sunk "lower and lower as sovereignty shifted from the parliament toward the bureaus and agencies. ... By 1940, it was plain that Congress no longer possessed even the war-making power...
...fourth time since World War II began, Adolf Hitler summoned his Reichstag into session in the Kroll Opera House this week to hear him report on the war's progress. Though the British knew he would be there, no bombs fell on Berlin that day. The Führer was in good form. He spoke seriously, with less virulence than usual, and his tone was one of confidence. For the German people his speech was a good bucker-up, if they needed one; for foreigners it was good propaganda...
...Night is an autobiography, but through its pages slinks many a Communist bigwig. There is Bulgarian Comrade Georgi Dimitrov, now secretary of the Communist International, once hero of the Reichstag fire trial. Valtin reveals him as the flabby, dandified, over-perfumed head (for many years) of the Comintern's West European underground section. There is sly, foxy Heinz Neumann, who plotted the 1927 uprising in Canton, China. Once Stalin's darling, he was shot in Stalin's Purge. There is George Mink, ex-Philadelphia taxi driver, Communist organizer of New York's water front, OGPU gunman...
Most persistent rumor circulating in world capitals for the last few weeks has been the rumor of peace. In Washington last week the U. S. State Department had to admit it had heard a rumor that Adolf Hitler planned to call the Reichstag to present his peace terms to the world. From Berlin came reports that the Reichstag would soon be summoned. In Rome the Italian Government was said to be still hoping for peace with Greece. Tokyo heard that feelers had been put out for ending the war in China...
Later in Berlin, Bayles (as correspondent for TIME Inc.) had a closer look at the little man. Bayles also paid close attention to the littler men who were Hitler's chief lieutenants, and witnessed some of their works - the burning of the Reichstag, the June blood purge. Now & again he would send a profile of one of them to LIFE or The New Yorker. They were portraits sketched with careful artlessness against the background of the subject's weird biography and crimes...