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...Sensitive to charges that the New Deal flouts the Constitution and regiments all U. S. economic life, some New Dealers were certain that the U. S. would promptly see through and repudiate ALL as a tool of selfish Old Dealers. Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma used his utmost term of contempt to tag ALL's members ? "gold dollar men." Said Relief Administrator Hopkins: "The League may be composed of right-thinking people but they are so far Right that no one will ever find them...
...outline of policy the Leader employed utmost skill in stressing "Peace," but made clear that his Nazi pacifism is based on confidence that Germany will get what she wants from the Great Powers without having to fight...
Personal Oath. What would the Army do? When President von Hindenburg, full of misgivings, called Adolf Hitler to the chancellorship (TIME, Feb. 6, 1933), he insisted that as a "safeguard" Lieut. General Werner von Blomberg, an aristocratic brother officer in whom he had utmost confidence, be made Defense Minister. Last week the Army's attitude depended on General von Blomberg, custodian of the military heritage of Feldmarschall von Hindenburg. Would he stand for the coup...
...Inevitably I cannot please everyone. I am not a dictator. I am a simple citizen who loves Liberty and who has the utmost confidence in your wisdom and your love of France. When I began my labors last February interior and exterior peace was threatened. To avert immediate danger we were forced to the recourse of extraordinary parliamentary procedure. [Gastounet forced Chamber and Senate to vote him power to put through the budget by decree] Thanks to Parliament we have balanced the budget; effected fiscal reforms; so improved our trade position that since March 1 500 million francs in gold...
...length of his snakelike route of 2,000 miles from Teheran to Ankara (see map) was itself a gigantic achievement of the two Dictators. Before they ousted the do-nothing hereditary royal dynasties of Turkey and Persia such a journey could only be made by meandering caravan and in utmost peril of attack by bandits. Most savage of all were the Kurdish cutthroats who for generations had defied both Persian and Turkish soldiers, raiding (first into one country, then into the other along their common frontier. Perhaps the wisest and most enlightened act of the King of Kings...