Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Telegraph repeaters clicked frantically throughout the Fatherland one day last week. Most urgent. Clear all lines. Berlin calling every Army officer above the rank of colonel, every Storm Troop leader, every Labor Corps leader, every Nazi Youth and Party leader. All were ordered to drop whatever they might be doing and rush to Berlin. Added the Realmleader's official circular telegram: NO EXCUSES WILL BE ACCEPTED...
...Berlin people with matinee and evening tickets for the State Opera found that theoretically they could get their money back. Practically the entire Opera district was walled off by police, soldiers and Nazi troopers. Standing shoulder to shoulder down the curbstones, they formed living cordons between which the snorting motor cars of Reichswehr officers and Nazi leaders raced. Police and troops snapped to salute as sky-blue uniformed General Goring dashed up, beaming and bowing in response to cheers which a foreign correspondent described as "unuttered." (The writer was later rebuked by the Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment...
Amid near panic in Berlin, rumors festered so thick that Alarmist Johannes Steel, Foreign Editor of the New York Post, fairly dithered: "The fortnight following Jan. 13 [date of the Saar plebiscite] may be the bloodiest two weeks in the history of Germany. Riots, executions, wholesale imprisonment involving 10,000 to 15,000 men and women, with possibly civil war, will sweep that unfortunate nation from its Baltic coasts to the banks of the Rhine...
CROWELL, has added the first full length biography of Mendelsohn to its rapidly growing library of the lives of interesting people. The story of the musician's struggles against his professional antagonists in Berlin and against his position as a man born in the Jewish faith is dramatically and interestingly told by Schirma Kaufman one of the younger members of the Philadelphia Orchestra...
...with Germany, France, or continuation of the status quo, i.e., control by the League of Nations. Every indication pointed to an overwhelming vote in favor of return to Germany. But on the chaos now reigning in the Reich, Saarlanders look askance; the district is predominantly Catholic, and relations between Berlin and the Vatican leave a great deal to be desired. The current feeling in the Saar is, according to Mr. Florinsky, that tradition and common language make the Saar German, but there is a strong tendency to regard Hitler's Reich as a perversion of modern society, and he expects...