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...vivid fact stood out when the personnel of Economist Göring's Council was announced last week: Five of twelve members were long-standing civil service experts who are relative newcomers to the Nazi Party. Inference of the shift of authority was that under the stress of the Allied blockade, and in the face of disappointment over Russia's power to help, German economy has had to bolster inflationary, promissory, "Socialist" schemes with more oldfashioned, penny-bank economics...
Herr Funk, always known as a Göring henchman, had by this shift given his portly hero more administrative titles and more actual power than any other man in Germany, including Adolf Hitler. Hermann Göring is now President of the General Economic Council, Chief of the National Defense Council, Administrator of the Four-Year Plan, Air Minister, Supreme Commander of the Air Force, Prime Minister of Prussia, President of the Reichstag, Reich Hunting Master, Reich Fishing Master. Walther Funk retained his posts as Economics Minister and Reichsbank President, but his jurisdictions were cut, his staff reduced...
Unfortunately, not much can be said for the remainder of the Greenwood team, particularly in the free-style departments. Accordingly, Coach Ulen is expected to shift his men around considerably. He will try to enter as many of the squad's inexperienced men as possible, and will test his veterans in events to which they have not been accustomed...
...were her chief exports to Germany. With coal production in the Saar reduced by France's cannon, and coal deliveries down the Rhine and out of Amsterdam blockaded, Sweden was glad to contract for British coal. With German manufacturers offering more & more ersatz materials, Sweden was glad to shift to British textiles. Britain was glad to buy Swedish timber (cellulose for explosives) and the high-grade hematite ore which Sweden used to barge to Germany from the Norwegian port of Narvik (now subject to the Allied blockade...
With the New Deal's emergency measures for recovery he would not quarrel. But because a nation's greatest moral, spiritual, economic and governmental change is involved in a shift in its fundamental social ideas, the big question remained: Does the New Deal represent such a shift? Said Herbert Hoover: "This is solely an issue. Honest men will treat it as such." Analyzing New Deal policies in currency, in finance, in agriculture he found such a change; a similar change in its insistence that the U. S. social system is outworn and in its tendency to increasing regimentation...