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Nominally be-monocled German Foreign Minister Baron Konstantin von Neurath, decorative socialite, was Chief Delegate. But at his side stalked long-necked, domineering Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Governor of the Reichsbank. To make things more exciting before he left Berlin Dr. Schacht recommended and Chancellor Hitler decreed last week a blanket and indefinite moratorium blocking payment of service charges on practically all German foreign obligations except her already frozen still-haltung credits. This move sent Germany dramatically to London hat in hand, served notice that unless she receives favors of some sort from the Conference her total borrowings are as good...
...Unemployment" sounded like most of the unemployment relief plans that every German Chancellor from Luther to von Papen attempted: a program of public and private works to cost 1,000,000,000 marks for which the government will issue Treasury notes, under the sole supervision of Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht...
...Atlantic to talk trade agreements with the President. For Guido Jung. Italian Minister of Finance whom Premier Mussolini had dispatched to Washington as his personal representative, President Roosevelt gave a large State dinner-but without Signor Jung who had been fog-bound in New York harbor. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht came as Adolf Hitler's special envoy. When Victor Ridder, one of the publishers of the New York Stoats-Zeitung, present as an official greeter, tried to press-muzzle him, the tall square-faced president of the Reichsbank resentfully exploded: "When you get through talking, I will talk." Because Italy...
...tariff bargain with the U. S. had to be restrained by President Roosevelt. On it next week were to sit Guido Jung, Italy's Minister of Finance, on his way to the U. S. aboard the Conte di Savoia as Premier Mussolini's personal representative, and Hjalmar Schacht. president of the German Reichsbank whom Dictator Hitler had dispatched to Washington...
Once famed as Germany's "Iron Man" because of his Bismarckian manner at conferences, straight-necked Dr. Schacht is genial, kindly, twinkle-eyed among friends. Enemies (mostly people he has outguessed) call him a disgusting opportunist with the vanity of a Pompadour and the ambition of a Napoleon. It is better to call him Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, his father having been a cover-to-cover reader of the works of Horace Greeley. Last week Dr. Schacht said...