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...late Lord Passfield (Sidney Webb) left in his will. There was a public outcry because the Quantock Hunt (staghounds) had been allowed petrol rations of 7½ gallons for each deer bagged. But British huntsmen were scheduling more than 100 chases between Easter and the end of April. In Bavaria, the horse-racing season opened; some 100,000 racegoers bet a total of 1½ million marks the first day. "Never before in the history of Bavarian racing," said a pleased German, "has so much money been spent...
Many Czechs found themselves in German-administered D.P. camps filled with Sudeten Germans recently expelled from Czechoslovakia. In a camp near Hof, in Bavaria, Czech refugees complained: "We are living on the German economy, sleeping in German shelters, eating German food. This cannot continue. It is impossible for us. They are laughing at us. How can the democratic nations of the world permit this to happen...
...luridly confusing quarter-centuries in the history of man. Progress appeared, unexpectedly, in Turkey, where Mustapha Kemal led a westernizing crusade. In Italy, Benito Mussolini had marched on Rome but was not yet (quite) a dictator. The only man who called himself that was Gustav von Kahr, Dictator of Bavaria, against whom Erich Ludendorff and Adolf Hitler plotted. In the U.S., John L. Lewis,* who had risen from statistician to president in the United Mine Workers, was getting ready for a trip to Europe. In New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt (shown as a pipe smoker on TIME'S 13th...
While Clay spoke Germany was shaken by the biggest strikes since pre-Hitler days. The walkouts protesting food shortages, which had started in the Ruhr (TIME, Jan. 26), shifted to Bavaria; more than a million Germans in 26 cities and scores of towns laid down their tools...
Chunky, slick-spoken Dr. Paul refused to discuss details of his escape or his activities since September. For some time to come, he thought, it would be best to lie low. He would stay in Bavaria, but in hiding. Said he: "There are Communist agents around here, you know...