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...Schacht Won't? Mussolini Will? Switzerland and The Netherlands quietly joined France off the gold standard last week, Dutch Prime Minister Hendnkus Colijn declaring by radio with masterly understatement: "Practically nothing has been changed as everyone will very soon realize...
...These have been assumed by the Berlin regime to the immense relief of municipalities who in effect have pooled their insolvencies with Reichsbank Governor Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, today the representative of such SUPERINSOLVENCY that creditors of Germany throughout the world dare not for the sake of their own bluffs call his bluff and in effect Germany gets along as if she were solvent...
Kiss in the morning, kick in the afternoon, and the very next morning a gleaming German airliner alighted in Paris with the so-called "Economic Dictator" of the Reich, famed Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Minister of Economics and Reichsbank President, in his most honeyed and wheedling mood. Dr. Schacht can be one of the sharpest, most cutting and ruthless men in Europe, but he was all smiles as he stepped from what might just as well have been a Nazi bomber and said with irony: "Well, well, Messieurs! I have come from Berlin in only five hours...
...Scarcely could French Communists believe their ears when they heard that Premier Blum, not only a Jew but also a Socialist, had greeted with every mark of courteous amity the first German Cabinet minister to go to Paris since the Nazis came to power in Berlin. As for Dr. Schacht, he seemed to have permission from Realmleader Hitler to forget for the duration of his Paris visit everything Germans have been told to remember about Jews and Marxists. After lunching at the Bank of France with the Premier, Finance Minis ter Vincent Auriol and other French Cabinet members, Dr. Schacht...
...Majesty was kept up late by the Greek Cabinet. The Premier, General John ("Little Moltke") Metaxas, has been frankly pro-German ever since he rated high as a young officer student at Kaiser Wilhelm's Military Academy. He has recently made important trade agreements with Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, and he considers that all Europe is hurtling toward a crisis in which it must choose between forms of Communism and forms of Fascism...