Breathless in pace and implications was the swooping Balkan air tour last week of autocratic German Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, whom closest friends call "Willy." In Vienna, Belgrade, Athens, Sofia and Budapest the Machiavellian doctor had fun insisting that he flew only to promote "economic peace." Just before he took off for Berlin, however, tactless Dr. Schacht could not resist blurting out what kind of economic peace he promotes. "Do creditor countries desire to renounce their claims against Germany?" he asked sharply. "If so they should say so, as Germany must...
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