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...balanced by including more Rightists as undersecretaries. The new Premier kept for himself the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, handed over his beloved Finance Ministry to Radical Socialist Lucien Lamoureux, a yes-man. Georges Bonnet, Minister of Justice in the outgoing Cabinet (Minister of Foreign Affairs in the days of "Munich"), was left out of the new Cabinet altogether. The Air Ministry, previously held by Radical Socialist Guy La Chambre, went to Left Democrat Laurent Eynac who has held this job before-no ball of fire...
Hitler owes his safety to Heinrich Himmler's Secret Police. But the Munich beer-hall bombing indicates that Himmler could use his police for an opposite purpose just as easily-if Göring, who organized the Gestapo, did not have his own private spies to spy on Himmler's spies...
...week when a hearty and smiling Mussolini conferred with a pale Adolf Hitler in a village in the foothills of the Alps, when from Berlin came stories that Russia would join the Axis, and when the shape of some vast peace move-a super-Munich that would be for all Europe what Munich was for Czecho-Slovakia-loomed in the background of dispatches...
...Allies of too nice an observance of neutral rights, Dorothy Thompson blamed the U. S. Senate, the Senators blamed Europe, and wrangling, dissension, bickering and looking for reasons for failure marked the reactions to a peace that few called good. No one could say with certainty that some super-Munich was in the making. But if it were, U. S. reaction to peace in Finland served as a prelude to the mighty discord that would arise when it was made...
...still hoping to become a doctor, Knickerbocker went to Germany, matriculated at the University of Munich. To pay his way, he took a job as occasional correspondent for United Press. He was in Munich when Adolf Hitler set forth with a handful of followers from the Bürger-bräukeller (where last November's bomb exploded) on his first unsuccessful Putsch to seize the Government...