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Exactly where the smudge-mustached Chancellor of Germany might be and with precisely whom he conferred became for several days last week the closest of state secrets. In a general way Austrian-born Adolf Hitler was known to be moving warily about South Germany, watching every phase of the bloody crisis in his Motherland from a ringside position. But one morning Munich buzzed with an arresting rumor: "He talked last night to The Man With the Cleft Nose...
When Adolf Hitler seized power Germany's trade balance had been favorable for three years and thus her vital imports were more than paid for by the proceeds of her exports. While this lasted the Fatherland could be considered economically afloat, no matter how deeply Germany might mire herself in the morass of moratoriums declared by blunt, bluff Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank...
...Import Blockade." Adolf Hitler can make an "Economic Tsar" but an "Economic Tsar" cannot always work miracles. Up to last week Dr. Schmitt's Ministry of Economics had used its theoretically boundless powers chiefly to establish an "import blockade" or trade rationing system as drastic as Soviet Russia...
Corporative State? Ironically, the Man With the Cleft Nose was not mustered into the Hitler Cabinet to play the desperate role of Economic Tsar but to equip Germany with an ordered "Corporative State." Chancellor Hitler, who despises armchair economists, took a keen personal liking to dynamic Dr. Schmitt as a "frontline war fighter." (His nose, however, was not cleft in battle but in a student duel.) Not an original Nazi, Dr. Schmitt entered the Cabinet with a reputation as Germany's No. 1 insurance tycoon, a man of rugged integrity whose energy and calm enabled the Frankfurter Insurance...
Abroad rumors have buzzed insistently that Tycoons Krupp von Bohlen and Thyssen were behind the recent blood purge of Nazi radicals (TIME, July 9) and now dominate Adolf Hitler. Best opinion among informed U. S. correspondents in Berlin was summed up last week as follows: "Herr Thyssen has lost much of the influence he enjoyed during the Party's fight for supremacy, when he was National Socialism's greatest champion among Big Business. Neither Thyssen nor Krupp von Bohlen is able to force his own ideas upon the Party, though their combined influence is still strong in Government circles...