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...ordain,' " read the Chancellor quoting the President, " 'that, from tomorrow until a definitive ruling on the national colors, the black-white-red banner* and the swastika flag [Nazi] are to be hoisted in common. These flags link together the glorious past of the German Reich and the mighty rebirth of the German nation. In common they shall incorporate the power of the State and the internal unity of all the national forces of the German people. Military buildings will fly only the Imperial war flag...
Speaking for himself, after he had quoted Old Paul's edict, Handsome Adolf cried: "The President has ordained that the banner of the National Revolution from now on is to fly on State and public buildings by the side of our unforgettable and time-honored banner of the old German Reich! By this marriage the victory of the National Revolution is made outwardly visible. A 14-year battle for power has now found its symbolic conclusion. It is up to us to see that this power never again is wrested from...
...erudite and rarely emotional or reverent daily paper, this program of Powell, Piston, Shepherd, Harris, and Bennett told the American story of today for all who cared to exert themselves to hear. Unfortunately, not all who came listened. It was easier to sit back after the brave Star Spangled Banner and John Powell's Negro melodies from Dixie and wear a slightly supercilious smile. It is the approved attitude and thought to be eminently safe...
...German Republic, contains more than 1,000,000 inhabitants. On telegraphic orders from Berlin grim Nazi Storm Troops rushed upon Hamburg's Socialist Mayor. Dr. Karl Petersen, who promptly resigned. The flag soon broken out above Hamburg's City Hall was neither the Republican nor the Hohenzollern banner. Having won the election under borrowed colors, the Nazis hoisted the Nazi flag: red. with a black swastika in its round white bull...
...drama laid in a background of steel struts, huge cranes, belching steam-engines, stinking box-cars, wood, sand, and concrete. Rough, eager workers with rugged, seamed faces, and stick-like limbs garbed in coarse cloth toil, sweat, wonder, learn, and finally succeed. The most industrious brigade is awarded a banner, the laurel wreath of the worker's state. There is no pomp or glitter, little enough of comfort, many primitive growls and grunts, but no oratory: the whole tone is rough, sodden, gray, inarticulate. The plot is of little or no moment--nay almost non-existent. The picture...