GERMANY: Miraculous Deeds

Trying his best to look, act and talk like a civilian, Germany's new Chancellor, General Kurt von Schleicher, has put away his bemedaled uniform, hung up his service cap. Fortnight ago he cajoled the hostile Reichstag into dissolution over the holidays (TIME, Dec. 19). Last week he made the program speech of his new Cabinet—which should have been made to the Reichstag—directly to the Damen und Herren of the Fatherland's radio audience. German tuners-in. accustomed to the rasping, imperious radio delivery of former Chancellor Colonel Franz von...

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