Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of this, Mr. Hitler was willing to accept from the League any concession, however small, which would have made his position tenable to the anti-League agitators in Berlin. Fortifications on the Russian border, and rehabilitation of a few dismantled fortresses, would have admittedly have satisfied him; but Sir John Simon, seemingly unimaginative, withheld his cooperation, and withdrawal was the Nazi alternative. Perhaps Sir John, and Mr. Henderson, were justified in their refusal, but it is difficult to condone their flat opposition to Mussolini's compromise...
...Press is crude. Last week club-footed little Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment, proudly "consecrated" the German Press to Nazi service. Into his office for the consecration filed 300 of Berlin's most eminent newsfolk...
Still on their horseshoe bench the six red-robed judges of Germany's Supreme Court heard more evidence last week against the five men accused of firing Berlin's Reichstag building (TIME, March 26, et seq.). Center of interest was still the dull-witted Dutch arson boy, Marinus van der Lubbe (only defendant to be kept manacled and in prison garb in the court room). Chief pain to the prosecution was still the pugnacious Bulgarian Communist Leader George Dimitroff...
...Wilhelmstrasse was worried. Ever since the anti-Red Hitler boojum began to frighten the Kremlin, France has been courting Russia, sending first Edouard Harriot (TIME, Sept. 11), then French Air Minister Pierre Cot to Moscow. Berlin last week dared antagonize Moscow no further. The Leipzig police department and the German Foreign Office hastened to send regrets...
...Thousands Cheer (words & music by Moss Hart & Irving Berlin; Sam Harris, producer). Even more tasteful than The Band Wagon, every bit as funny as Of Thee I Sing, this revue began turning away a cue of ticket seekers at 11 o'clock on the morning after its first night. What people missed...