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...college has indeed sold its birthright for a mess of fire-engines. From this strategic point where they cannot come or go without disturbing the whole Yard and a dozen outlying buildings, the big red trucks will spread bedlam wherever Harvard men have their classes. From Paine Hall to Emerson, Beethoven will be punctuated with triple alarms and Philosophy with false alarms. Even the Gibralter-like walls of the new chapel will tremble...
Shrewd Senor Azana, when appointed War Minister (TIME, May 4) decided at once that 22,219 commissioned officers (149 of them Generals) were too many for Spain, slashed the number to 7,000. "Our Army today," he has said with modest pride, "is compact!" Last week amid National Assembly bedlam about Mother Church, shrewd War Minister Azana suddenly deserted pious President Alcala Zamora, made a fiery anticlerical speech which delighted the Socialists (largest Spanish party). That speech a few hours later made War Minister Azana the Provisional President and Premier of Spain. But first
...Herr Bruning?" "Here!" answered Chancellor Heinrich Briining, while Communists yelled, "Hunger Dictator! Not one more day of Bruning in this place!" Amid all sorts of bedlam the roll call continued, reached "Herr Dr. Lowen-stein?" "Oi, oi, oi!" jeered the Fascists, repeated this noise every time a Jewish name was called...
Puffing a menthol-cooled cigaret, Prince August Wilhelm von Hohenzollern, fourth son of Wilhelm II, sat in the Visitors' Gallery of the German Reichstag one day last week calmly enjoying a scene of such absolute bedlam, such screeching pandemonium that his smoking passed unchallenged by the ushers...
...Reichstag opened last week there was bedlam within (see p. 21), riot without. Communists roared the Internationale among the trees and bushes of the Tiergarten,* were chased from cover by mounted police. Fascists came early, sat in squads upon all Tiergarten benches near the Reichstag, bawled "Hail Hitler!" and "Wake up Germany!" hour after hour, growing more and more hoarse. To keep order nearly all Berlin's police were concentrated around the Reichstag - with dire result...