GERMANY: The Sea & The Sun

Berlin newsorgans picked out with bold-face type last week certain phrases in a speech by Nazi Wilhelm Kube. Provincial Governor of Berlin & Brandenburg, which sounded like a hint that pudgy little Chancellor Adolf Hitler could easily be persuaded to accept a crown.

Cheered by 12,000 brownshirts in Berlin's vast Sportspalast, Governor Kube shouted: "Through the person of Adolf Hitler—whose mission is divine—every German has become more self-confident and valuable. It is wrong to speak in the plural of Nazi leaders. Our Nazi movement is monarchistic and knows only one leader—Adolf Hitler!"

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