Word: hitlerized
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...famed "Iron Man" of German finance, blunt Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. who fought the Fatherland's battles over the Young Plan (TIME, Jan. 27, 1930), came out for the first time last week in support of Adolf Hitler...
...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...
...Hindenburg-Hitler negotiations which began with their "extraordinarily cordial meeting" fortnight ago continued last week through an exchange of formal letters which Berlin wits dubbed "the game of questions & answers." With each exchange it became clearer that the President, though he had commissioned Fascist Hitler to try to form a Cabinet with a parliamentary majority, was not anxious that he should succeed. Herr Hitler drew from Old Paul what amounted to a stipulation that the President would not appoint him Chancellor unless he could obtain a "safe majority" in the Reichstag for a Cabinet pledged to continue all the policies...
Since 90% of the German electorate decisively rejected von Papenism at the polls last month, the President's stipulation could not have been fulfilled by any German last week. Plainly it was a trap to embarrass Leader Hitler and stamp him with the stigma of having "failed" to form a Cabinet. Realizing this, ex-Corporal Hitler decided to drop his negotiations with ex-Fieldmarshal von Hindenburg, told his aides to draft a final letter to the President and hied himself to Berlin's State Opera, enjoyed a rollicking performance of Die Meistersinger...
...typed pages) was carried 200 yards from the Kaiserhof Hotel to the 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...