There was hardly a bigger story in Europe last week than this: Dr. Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht had laid his resignation before Herr Adolf Hitler and the Economics Ministry he wanted to resign had been physically taken over by Colonel General Hermann Wilhelm Gőring.
Meanwhile Dr. Schacht was motoring "for a few days" in Italy. His principal aides at the Economics Ministry were brusquely transferred to other departments of the German Government last week. Control of Germany's closely rationed imports of raw materials was taken over by officials directly responsible to Gőring. "Any...
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