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...Germany knows him as "the Nazi Martyr." He wrote the words of the Nazi anthem, now called "The Horst Wessel Song." But in life Horst Wessel was merely "one of many" original brownshirts. Because Horst Wessel wrote a song and happened to be one of the Browns killed by the Reds he has grown great in Death. But his life scarcely makes good enough cinema material to endow with the mighty name HORST WESSEL. As released last week Hans Westmar, One of Many goes lighter on the Jews, heavier on the Communists than did Horst Wessel. It is definitely militaristic...
...Premier of Prussia, took his place on a swastika-decked dais and waived the formality of a roll call. It did not matter who was present, since everyone was going to vote "Ja." To set all Germany an example of speed, General Goring startlingly dispensed with even the Nazi anthem, the "Horst Wessel Song" (see col. 1). In crisp, commanding sentences, shouted in parade ground tones, Speaker Goring "requested" the Deputies to leap to their feet in unison when they wished to signify approval. Popping up and down like a roomful of marionets, the Reichstag transacted all business...
Same day Dublin's Dail took pity upon Housepainter Peadar Cearnaigh (Peter Kearney). Inflamed by the Easter Rebellion of 1916, Peadar Cearnaigh sat down and wrote the words of "The Soldier's Song." As the national anthem of the Irish Free State it brings him great honor. Lately he has demanded royalties for public performances. Royalties he did not receive, but last week the Dail voted him a grant...
...Composed by a Frenchman to words originally French it is the anthem not of Soviet Russia but, properly speaking, the World Communist Party. First verse (as sung in Russia today...
...most startling when in a gathering of all classes at the Pierson-Trumbull debate the piano struck up "Bright College Years" to hear painfully weak humming and mumbling and to see embarrassed glances at one's neighbor. This is increasingly true in every gathering at which the grand anthem of Yale is begun. Can't we out of respect to our traditions and past glories learn this simple tune and its significant words? Many do not even realize that the words "For God, for Country, and for Yale" originated here...