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During the Prussian parliamentary crisis in the summer of 1932, Rundstedt took charge of Berlin on Hindenburg's order to see that order was kept. His reward was command of Army Group I, with headquarters in Berlin. He was still in command in 1935 when the hollow-cheeked, ascetic...
This article is designed for the incoming Freshman who three weeks from few will be unpacking his trunk in Cambridge, secure in the ascetic belief that his next three or four years will be spent with his nose deep in books. It is inteded for the Freshman who thinks Harvard...
Basilisk. To combat rebellion in Europe, it seemed logical that Germany should choose its bloodiest man. Reinhard Heydrich is six feet tall, lean, trim, yellow-haired, 37. He is pale, thin-nosed, thin-lipped. His features might be those of a great brutalitarian or a great ascetic. He is no...
The Welcome. It was under the shrewd hazel-grey eyes of an able, forthright realist, Brazil's Foreign Minister and the Conference's administrator, Oswaldo Aranha, that the delegates began assembling in Rio. In fine fettle, Aranha snapped orders to painters, rushed completion of a new five-unit...
Mahatma Gandhi, 72, last week resigned the leadership of his Indian National Congress 'party. With the roar of Axis guns growing louder in their ears, many of Gandhi's sub-leaders could no longer follow his ways of non-violent resistance. Most of them are babus (educated men...