DR SCHACHT IS THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN GERMANY NEXT TO HI

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"DR. SCHACHT . . . IS THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN GERMANY NEXT TO HITLER" (WOODROW WILSON.) EDWARD M. HOUSE. Group of 12 items, each Signed, "E.M. House," to Mr. or Mrs. John Hays Hammond, including two ALsS, 9 TLsS, and an IPS. The letters, most brief acknowledgments, some allude to political matters. Together 13 pages, 8vo or smaller; generally good condition, some mounted at corners to larger sheet. The photograph, "To Mrs. John H. Hammond, My Silent Partner / from her devoted friend," half-length portrait by Pierce, showing him looking into camera. Inscribed on the mount below the image. Additionally signed by the photographer on the mount, lower left, in pencil. 9 1/2x7 inches (image), 12x9 1/4 inches overall; moderate silvering at all edges. Vp, 1915-36

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11 October 1929: ". . . Your letter to the President is a model. It is brief, it tells the whole story and is convincing. If any revision of the sea laws is brought about so that the Freedom of the Seas becomes a fact and no longer a dream, the entire world will owe you a debt . . . ."

16 May 1935: ". . . Dr. Schacht, as Mr. Viereck says, is the most powerful man in Germany next to Hitler himself. I know him fairly well and would trust his judgment.

"Mr. Viereck is my intermediary in dealing with Germany and is in touch with the powers there. . . ."

Edward Mandell House (1858-1938) was an advisor to Woodrow Wilson concerned primarily with foreign affairs.