GERMANY: Biggest Biggest

The biggest man in the German Government, 225-lb. Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Göring, won an apparently decisive victory last week over his strongest and most bitter foe, 125-lb. Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, club-footed Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment.

Emotional, intuitive Adolf Hitler prefers to move in a mysterious way, but the net result of what Der Führer did last week was to put all German domestic affairs in the ham-fists of Hermann Wilhelm Göring who, in effect, became Vice Chancellor under Chancellor Hitler. This was accomplished when Der Führer signed a...

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