GOERING'S BLUFF CALLED

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXII, Issue 15240, 5 January 1943, Page 4

GOERING'S BLUFF CALLED

FOREIGN INVESTMENTS. On© of the brighter characteristics of the 8.8. C. *s German service has always been its aptitude for answering back. A recent speech of Hitler’s was replied to within a few moments of its conclusion—in the German “Quiz” programme, “Any questions ” sent out every Wednesday evening in the 8.8. C. European Service. In a subsequent programme, it was Goerings t.urq to be backanswered. Just previously, in a public speech. the swashbuckling Marshal liad touched, with sarcasm of Germanic, oven Hermannic heaviness, upon the reports in the “enemy countries. - * of his fat banking accounts abroad. “I should he very grateful,” he declared, with bluff lie artiness—or hearty bluff, as you will—“if these gentlemen were to name the amounts and the banks where I have deposited these fabulous sums.” The 8.8. C. obliged him. A member of the German Quiz team not only named the Intermediaries and agents through whom the iiw*tstments were made or moneys deposited but announced the several sums concerned. Total value of the golden eggs (laid by the German goosed which Goering has stored in various parts of the world, against leaner days, amounts to a formidable fortune. In this connection, it is interesting to recall a passage from one of bis earlier speeches: “Our aim was rot profit for individuals, hut the concentration of all our strength for the entire people’s community.” And then to remember that the Field Marshal’s emoluments from his various Offices of State aggregate 900.000 marks a year (there being 20 marks to one pound at par).