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...biggest man in the German Government, 225-lb. Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Göring, won an apparently decisive victory last week over his strongest and most bitter foe, 125-lb. Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, club-footed Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment...
Emotional, intuitive Adolf Hitler prefers to move in a mysterious way, but the net result of what Der Führer did last week was to put all German domestic affairs in the ham-fists of Hermann Wilhelm Göring who, in effect, became Vice Chancellor under Chancellor Hitler. This was accomplished when Der Führer signed a decree which recalled his promise to the Nurnberg Nazi Party Congress (TIME, Sept. 21) that by 1940 the Fatherland will have been made economically independent of all other countries. Last week the Realmleader vested in General Göring...
...this spectacular upping of Göring, but it served to emphasize the gradual drift of Der Führer away from the Party's economic radicals: Dr. Goebbels, Dr. Richard-Walther Darre, Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Robert Ley. Leader of the German Labor Front and Herr Wilhelm Keppler, an engineer who has had for three years the peculiar title of "Personal Economic Adviser to Adolf Hitler." These Tugwells of the Nazi regime have long been slipping and 36 hours after Göring took over last week Engineer Keppler was dismissed by Der Führer...
...little Belgium thinks that her only chance is to stand fearlessly neutral, as she did in 1914, but this time better prepared to fight. The Flemish element among King Leopold's subjects have always considered that his father, King Albert, was a fool for not selling to Kaiser Wilhelm II at a stiff price the right to let German troops peaceably cross Belgium to attack France. Whether His Majesty in any way now shares this view was entirely undisclosed last week, but in Antwerp especially pleased Flemings opined with widest smiles on their broad faces, "Our new King...
...last week obese Nazi Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Goring strove fretfully in Vienna to kill time, loitering in shops unrecognized. When he tried to inspect the Habsburg Treasures, an unimpressed attendant told him to come back at an hour when they would be open to the public. The reason why General Goring was thus dawdling in Vienna turned out afterward to be because of an elaborate ruse devised by the German Minister to the Austrian Republic, scheming Franz von Papen. It was his idea that Goring should as if by chance happen to appear on the Vienna station platform just...