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Only the most strenuous remonstrance by Economics Minister Dr. Hjalmar Schacht obtained respite last week for Germany's 25,000 Jewish traveling salesmen whom Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick would deprive of their licenses. "Jewish traveling salesmen," according to Dr. Frick, "tell stories and spread rumors all over the Fatherland which are contrary to the welfare of the nation...
...Germany meanwhile Adolf Hitler was under covert criticism in high Nazi Party circles which consider his new Semite-repressing decrees (TIME, Nov. 25) too moderate. In the Realmleader's defense his close friends explained that at a lively Cabinet meeting, with the German "Old Guard" of Schacht, von Neurath...
...figures for showing off clothes in the windows of Jewish shops." Next day Jews received another blow from Germans as distinguished from Nazis. Ousted from their eight stock exchanges were all Jewish floor brokers by order of the German Old Guard's Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht...
...shall make them responsible," threatened Dr. Schacht, "if the financial and economic completion of the task set up by the Realmleader is made impossible...
...last German who dared to flay the Nazi lunatic fringe was Franz von Papen, and President Paul von Hindenburg sent an Army detachment to guard his life during the ensuing "blood purge" (TIME, July 9, 1934). His career broken, von Papen became Minister to Austria. No sooner had Dr. Schacht spoken this week than Nazi local satraps began blustering against "reactionaries"?i. e. Schacht. All parts of his speech embarrassing to Nazis were omitted from German newsorgans by order of Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels. Sensing the showdown which cannot be put off forever, Germany...