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...Royal Stuart tartan. In the musicians' gallery was King George's favorite dance orchestra, Mrs. Annie Shand's Band from Aberdeen, which has played at every servants' ball at Balmoral since the War. Mrs. Annie Shand and her band gallantly tackled the Greek national anthem for the royal foreigners. While King George and the Archbishop of Canterbury sat looking on, royalty and servants danced the Paul Jones. There were also the Spanish gavotte and the flirtation polka, but the feature of the evening was a Highland reel by Princess Marina after only two days' coaching...
Another change was to restore in Austria the Habsburg Imperial anthem and uniforms. Today when in full dress an officer in the army of Austrian President Wilhelm Miklas can barely be distinguished from an officer of Kaiser Franz Josef. When Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg of Austria recently conferred with Premier Mussolini he vowed afterward that "even the name Habsburg was not mentioned." but no Italian doubted last week that Il Duce had merely found it more convenient to sav "Otto...
...over the Fatherland last week tourists leaped to their feet at sound of the Nazi anthem, raised their right arms as Nazi banners passed. They knew that five U. S. tourists who spoke no German had been beaten by Storm Troopers in quaint old Nuremberg for standing motionless and puzzled when ordered in German to salute...
Then at Munich there was the case of C. W. Woodside, instructor at the University of Toronto. His hotelkeeper heard him say to a fellow tourist, "I nearly got into trouble this morning. I saluted their Nazi anthem but not all the flags and a Storm Troop officer made me show him my passport before he would let me go." At this revelation, Instructor Woodside's eavesdropping Munich hotelkeeper shouted: "There is no place for you in this hotel," threw him bag and baggage out of his room...
...said His Honor. "Do you imagine we are capable of believing you were making coffee in your kitchen while in the next room your lodger was being shot?" The lodger was famed Horst Wessel. the student who adapted a German sea chanty into Nazidom's anthem and became the official brownshirt martyr after he was shot by Communists in Frau Salm's boarding house. The shooting of Horst Wessel by four Communists occurred in 1930 before Hitler's rise to power and the confessed No. 1 shooter died in jail, but Nazis, bent on winding...