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...Germany today, movie productions like The Autocrat are as much the work of the State as the law itself, and last week Nazis saw nothing incongruous in this method of introducing to Germans via the screen what is soon to be a basic change in German rights of property and inheritance...
...week carried official predictions that soon in German law "there will be no need and no room for abstract rights of property." As an example of how this is going to work out, anxious German property owners were advised last week to see a new Nazi cinema play, The Autocrat, starring Emil Jannings who last week in Austria spent half an hour displaying his collection of 500 live birds to the Duke of Windsor...
...Autocrat is the story of a German steel tycoon, a character suggesting Krupp, who comes to the conclusion that his heirs scarcely deserve to inherit the vast works he has built up and it must go to the stalwart Nazi workmen who have toiled for him all these years. According to German Common & Economic Law, in such cases "considerations of proximity" shall rule-that is, if the heirs by blood are all splendid Germans of ''pure race" and patriotism, the estate may rightly go to them, but should they be otherwise the "superior proximity" of the Nazi workmen...
This is indubitably true, if for no other reason than that foresighted Mr. Quezon has appointed only seven justices to his Supreme Court although his Constitution allows for eleven. So he can at any time pack his Court. Said the strutting little autocrat of the Islands: "We have made democracy effective and made it impossible for any one to grab the reins of government and proclaim himself a dictator...
...burning of the Berlin Reichstag, said Hitler, "is the beginning." Twelve hours later he was the autocrat of Germany. In the U. S. 120,000,000 citizens were groaning: "Would the Depression never...