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German newspapers were compelled to suppress all but the barest news of the Church crisis and Reichsbischof Müller flatly refused to discuss it with U. S. correspondents. "Tell American churchgoers," said he, "that in our Church the Gospel will naturally remain as a foundation on which the message of Christ will rest." Meanwhile Storm Troops descended on the parishes of many non-Nazi pastors, herded several off to prison camps...
...representative of Manhattan's National City Bank was in Athens last week negotiating an extension of its $7,500,000 loan to Greece. With a chip on his royalist shoulder, Premier Tsaldaris said "Greece will reduce her expenditures to the barest minimum. She will convince her creditors that she is doing everything possible to pay her debts...
...seen in the present system of holding examinations in the Ancient Authors at the beginning of the Senior year. In the final analysis, this means that it is only during the final year in college that a student of literature can be expected to be grounded on the barest essentials of his field...
...things for which the hearts of tabloid newspaper editors currently yearn, one of the dearest is news-or even the barest rumor, hint or factitious mention-of a baby which tabloidom hopes and prays is soon going to be born to the Charles Augustus Lindberghs. Evidence of the depth of this yearning was furnished last week by the New York Daily News. When Col. Lindbergh landed at Newark Airport with Dwight Whitney Morrow, that famed father-in-law who wants to be nominated for the Senate by New Jersey's Republicans beckoned to him for political-photographic purposes...
...relieve the backs of those who toil from gigantic expenditures and the world from hate and fear which flows from rivalry in the building of warships." To define as narrowly as might be prudent his conception of what constitutes "adequate preparedness" he declared: "That preparedness must not exceed the barest necessity for defense or it becomes a threat of aggression against others and thus a cause of fear and animosity in the world...