The Lincoln Times

Goering, Goebbels Given Vast Powers

Hitler Names Marshal And Propaganda Chief Bosses Over German Public.

London, July 25.—Adolf Hitler tonight invested Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering and Propaganda Chief Paul Joseph Goebbels with sweeping powers over German public and private life and in effect placed Germany and the occupied territories under an arch Nazi quadrumvirate.

In a move apparently exterminating any conservative influence which had remained in authority, Hitler produced a blueprint for crumbling Germany's death battle, a last fanatical struggle to be directed by the "big four" of Nazism—Hitler, Goering, Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler, the Gestapo chief appointed last week to be an all-powerful commander-in-chief of the army at home.

Hitler issued a decree naming Goering and Goebbels to extract from the peoples of "the greater German Reich and the occupied countries the last ounce of strength for the German army and the arms industry," and he empowered them to "issue instructions" to even the highest Reich authorities, whoever they may be.

Home Front Control.

Having apparently insured Nazi control of the army by last week's ruthless Himmler-directed purge of rebellious Junkers, tonight's move was directed at clinching control of the home front.

Goering was appointed chairman of the ministerial council for defense of the Reich and Goebbels was named his executor as Reichs commissar for total mobilization for war. The decree made Goering a dictator over all private and public life in Germany and occupied Europe, with Goebbels his executor to scrape the bottom of the barrel for manpower and materials for a fiery Armageddon.

Goering was charged with a total overhaul of state administration and public services "with the purpose of freeing the maximum man power for the German army and the arms industry and of adapting the entire public life in every possible respect to the demands of total war."