Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Germany. Success of the plan depended on Adolf Hitler's two-weeks-old promise to observe a temporary truce in his anti-Semitic campaign while the $300,000,000 corporation to finance Jewish emigration was being set up. Last week Dictator Hitler bluntly broke his promise, permitted Berlin police to experiment with a new method for running Jews out of Germany and grabbing their property...
...Berlin method: to require each day the names of 100 Berlin Jews who will leave Germany within the next fortnight. When the 100 have paid their taxes, their share in the $400,000,000 vom Rath fine, the capital flight tax, contributed to the fund for the support of aged Jews and sold their jewelry to the State at the State's own price, they will be given passports marked with a large "J" (for Jew), told to get their visas. For those who don't get out on time, "dire penalties" will be provided...
...suit the independent Magyars. Last week his successor, Count Paul Teleki, erstwhile Boy Scout leader, made more confusing news. Having announced that he would support the brutal anti-Semitic laws planned by Dr. Imrédy and that he was in agreement with the "peaceful aims of the Rome-Berlin axis," the Teleki Government promptly ordered police to round up the green-shirted Hungarist Party, the country's largest Nazified organization (estimated membership: 1,000,000). The party was outlawed, party headquarters and homes of members were ransacked, 500 Green Shirts were seized and "leading personalities" were bundled...
Mozart: Die Zauberflote (Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting, with Tiana Lemnitz. Erna Berger, Helge Roswaenge, Gerhard Hüsch and other artists; Victor: 2 volumes, 3-7 sides). The 18th-Century Masonic symbolism ol Mozart's great, quaint, rollicking fantasy-opera The Magic Flute is pretty vague to present-day audiences. But the music is some of the most beautiful Mozart wrote. Its first complete recording, less perfectly tooled but more spectacular than the Glyndebourne Don Giovanni (TIME, Oct. 3), is the record of the month...
Died. Prentiss Bailey Gilbert, 55, U. S. chargé d'affaires in Germany since Ambassador Hugh R. Wilson's recall last November; of thrombosis; in Berlin...