Word: bavaria
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...state police force only a little smaller than the regular Army. Suppose New York City was the capital of this state and of the nation and suppose that of the other 16 states only two were of any importance; a southern, Catholic, reactionary state, still talking Secession, representing Bavaria, and a central, industrial state representing Saxony. Then picture President Hoover, one week before a national election, suddenly throwing the entire New York State Government out of office, assuming the Governorship himself, declaring martial law and doubling the size of the U. S. Army by attaching to it the New York...
...Bavaria, where the bitter flavor of modern Berlin and musty Munich dissolved, Author Hergesheimer grew too nostalgic to be comfortable. He was jealous of the strapping, benign folk who lived such peaceful lives. "I would have given up everything I had managed, spiritually and socially, to gather in more than 50 years to be any one of the characteristic men of Tegernsee, strong and erect, my throat filled with music." He thought he could best fit in as a grocer in Wiessee, "sleep deeply all night in the room above my produce and ... in the early morning, polish the apples...
...Bavaria must oppose the encroachments of Berlin!" barked the grizzled, ramrod-backed Prince to a throng of Bavarians who were once his father's subjects. "Bavaria must oppose all efforts to centralize the Fatherland. That is the Western and notably the French method! . . . The Empire of Bismarck was composed of allied states and therein rested its strength...
...Prince might talk and raise tumultuous cheers, but meanwhile Bavaria remained a Free State. Her Republican Premier, Dr. Heinrich Held, was busy with other state premiers last week, vowed to carry the cause of states' rights before the German Supreme Court at Leipzig...
...week against President Paul von Hindenburg's decree lifting the ban on Adolf Hitler's brown-shirted "Storm Troops" (TIME, June 27). In Munich, hot-headed Bavarians talked of remaking their Free State into a Bavarian Monarchy, restoring the House of Wittlesbach. Deposed Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria naturally tried to hasten the popular ferment, stopped just short of high treason to the German Republic...