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Show Dr. Goebbels' Leave of Absence ' Hints Exit From High Nazi Job LONDON, Jan. 7 (INS) Ttje firm conviction of many European observers that Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels is on his way out of the nazi ruling triumvirate received new impetus today with a report he will shortly take a six months' "leave of Munich ha broadcast a msssaga which waa singularly lacking In the punch and fir so long characteristic of his public utterances. The nature of this talk, some ob-! servers insisted, was proof that Goebbels was In disfavor and slowly slow-ly receding from his position of power and Importance. Hitler, it is reported, is contemplating a thorough thor-ough reorganisation of ths department depart-ment over which Goebbels so long wielded undisputed power. absence." This new development In the strange and recent series of eventi revolving about tha harp-tongud orator whs ha long directed the propaganda of nasldom waa reported report-ed from Berlin this morning by the London News Chronicle. It followed by little more than a week a widely-circulated story that Dr. Goebbels had been aeverely beaten by frienda of Lida Baarova, Csecho-Slovak film beauty who has loog been a leading figure In German Ger-man filmdom. This incident, which allegedly ssnt Goebbels to a hospital, coupled cou-pled with other affairs In which tha limping propaganda potentate waa aid to hava been involved, reputedly re-putedly aroused the wrath of Retchsfushrer Adolf Hitler and decided de-cided tha latter upon tha advisability advisa-bility of rsmovlng Gosbbel from hi high post. a Such a mov has long been ad-, ad-, vocated by Field Marshal Hermann WUhelm Goering, according to Lon-, Lon-, don report. Goering and Goebbels frequently hava been described as archrival for the favor of Hitler. Goebbels long led tha two-horse race, these reports said, but Goering recently haa com Into cloeer and closer contact with tha fuehrer, and the Baarova Incident waa said to hava given him an unequaled opportunity op-portunity to eas hi rival out of the picture. According to the New Chronicle, Goebbela will leave the propaganda ministry shortly for the ostensible purpose of recuperating from an "operation" which waa cited as the official reason for his long sojourn In a .private Berlin hospital. Goebbels' only recent contact with tha German people was on New Year's day, when from his home on the picturesqus Wannsee near |