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...eruption" last week -an utter blasting of Nazidom's foes-the Chancellor and his chief henchmen have been shouting themselves hoarse for weeks, roaring up and down Germany in Herr Hitler's big private plane, often piloted by the bullnecked, hot-eyed No. 2 Nazi, General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Premier of Prussia and a War ace (see cut). To ensure victory other steps were also taken-or at least a great many Germans seemed to think...
...recent visit to Sweden, strutting General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, Premier of Prussia and Germany's No. 2 Nazi, laid an enormous, swastika-shaped contraption of laurel branches on the tombstone of his epileptic wife.* Last week an irate anti-Nazi raiding party entered the cemetery, carried off the Goring laurel swastika and left this note behind...
...does occasionally point a faintly ironic anecdote. As he passes from portrait to portrait, only one is able to draw phrases of condemnation from his respectfully admiring lips. All good Edwardians will applaud his taste. Author Maurois gives it as his considered opinion that Edward VII was a gentleman, Wilhelm II a bounder. As a sympathetic exhibition of the English pre-War generation The Edwardian Era should be hard to top; it might almost bear that seal so dear to the fronts of better-class London shops: "By Appointment to H. M. the King...
Ever since their Supreme Court began to probe the Reichstag Building fire (TIME, Oct. 2 et seq.) Germans have been wondering what would happen if the Court should call beefy General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, Premier of Prussia and the No. 2 Nazi, as a witness. Would he deny that the firebugs escaped through the Reichstag's famed underground passage leading to the house of the Speaker, who was then Göring himself? Could he make plausible the Nazi charge that Communists set a fire which provided Chancellor Hitler with the opportunity to rush straight to President...
...supervisor of the election, Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick announced after anxious cogitation that the plebiscite question will be put in highly personal language on the ballot thus: "Dost thou, German man or German woman, approve of the policy of the Reich government, and art thou ready to acknowledge this policy as the expression of thy own viewpoint and will and solemnly pledge thyself thereto...