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...there are cultural barriers too, particularly in Southern Europe and rural regions. More women work in countries where there are better public child-care facilities and more equitable wages; Europe needs more of both. "Getting more European women to work isn't just a question of fairness," says Barbara Helfferich, a top aide to Diamantopoulou. "It's a question of being competitive in a globalized market...
...article containing this piece of super-gloom was by Emil Helfferich, onetime "Maritime Adviser to the Führer" who became board chairman of the North German Lloyd and Hamburg American Lines when the Nazis lumped them under the same directorate in 1933. Herr Helfferich urged that the Government aid stagnant German export-import firms by permitting them to discharge superfluous employes (illegal under the Nazi job-protection laws); by letting them use "rent free" the Government warehouses in which German clogged exports are now piling up; and by directly providing "necessary capital to keep them afloat." If all this...
When Germany's two greatest shipping lines, North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American, were abruptly lumped together under Chancellor Adolf Hitler's "Maritime Adviser" Herr Emil Helfferich, the ousted former board chairmen of both lines revealed that "dissatisfaction in the outside world toward Germany" had sharply reduced their business (TIME, Aug. 1). Last week the German Government fought back against this blight on German shipping caused by the distaste of many travelers for anything remotely connected with Hitlerism...
...trans-Atlantic passage can be bought for such a sum (except on a freight boat), this German order amounted to a boycott of U. S. and other foreign steamship companies serving Germany On the Berlin Stock Exchange shares of North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American bounded upward. "Maritime Adviser" Helfferich, board chairman of both lines, beamed, repeated his favorite slogan, "The spirit of Adolf Hitler is the best Nazi spirit! We will devote ourselves to fulfilling it." Meanwhile boycotted foreign shipping men devoted themselves to energetic protests. Both the U. S. and British embassies in Berlin started battling with...
Next day in Bremen, at the annual meeting of the North German Lloyd, ex actly the same drama was played in almost the same words. Stockholders accepted the resignation of Lloyd's grizzled chief, famed Philipp Heineken, and elected Nazi Helfferich to serve also as their board chairman. No plans whatever for the re-organization of Germany's two greatest shipping lines were announced. Last spring Chancellor Hitler gave correspondents to understand that he viewed with disfavor their close working agreement, thought they ought to compete more vigorously. Last week Double Chairman Helfferich, in whose person Hamburg-American...