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Unlike common soothsayers, Prophet Schacht has prophesied publicly and in explicit terms...
Intuitive Herr Hitler appointed as the new President of the Reichsbank perhaps the greatest prophet of modern times. Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, "that tough Schleswiger from the Town of Tinglev" (in Denmark) whose parents resided in Brooklyn until shortly before his birth, when they removed to Germany...
...same, sort of intrigue that made it, came when Hitler & von Papen, both smarting in eclipse, met at Cologne for a night conference (TIME, Jan. 16). Soon afterward they were joined by "The Hearst of Germany," small, cyclonic Nationalist Party Leader Dr. Alfred Hugenberg and, reputedly, by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, famed during his six years as president of the Reichsbank...
...this abrupt move Dr. Schacht brought a sizeable section of Berlin finance into the Biggest Business phalanx lined up behind Handsome Adolf by Steel Tycoon Fritz Thyssen (TIME. Nov. 28). Also in Berlin, actively supporting the Hitler cause last week, was a close kinsman of British King-Emperor George V, none other than Duke Karl Eduard von Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha who recently married his daughter Princess Sibylle to the eldest son of Sweden's Crown Prince (TIME. Oct. 10). Backed by the banker, the tycoon, the duke and by a large plurality of German voters, Leader Hitler...
...Presidential Palace. It proposed-having regard to the fact that all German Cabinets for the past two years have been based not on Reichstag support but on presidential decrees-that the President consent to formation of a Hitler Cabinet on the existing basis of "presidial" (presidential ) authority. Banker Schacht, knowing full well that Old Paul would reject this proposal (as the President proceeded to do), came out first with a fighting statement: "There is only one man who can be Chancellor at this period and he is Adolf Hitler! If Hitler does not become Chancellor now, he will within four...