That holy terror of European high finance, turtlenecked, dictatorial Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, who as President of the Reichsbank has browbeaten many an international conference, was off last week to Danzig on a suave mission of quiet German conquest.
Up to Danzig before the sleepy old Free City's last election Adolf Hitler sent his whole crew of high-power Nazi orators, Goebbels, Goring and the rest (TIME, April 15). The Free City's Government was already in the hands of Danzig Nazis, needed only a two-thirds majority in the Danzig Parliament to take steps to...
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