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...impervious to drama himself, he told New York Timeswoman Anne O'Hare McCormick four months ago: "The destiny of Europe will be decided here. This country is a natural and necessary point for European equilibrium. If this position is given up all of Central Europe is gone." Bismarck put the same thing more succinctly years before. "Whoever is master of Bohemia is master of Europe," said the Iron Chancellor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Optimist | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

Public Service. A $500 gold medal was awarded to the Bismarck (N. Dak.) Tribune for its news reports and editorials which started a movement for self-help among victims of the dust bowl. To the Edmonton (Alberta) Journal went a special bronze plaque for leadership in defense of a free press in the Province of Alberta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pulitzer Prizes | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...Bismarck. N. Dak., members of the Legislature discovered that, because of a punctuation error, it has been illegal to sleep in a North Dakota hotel for nine years. The law (passed in 1929): "No hotel, restaurant, dining room or kitchen shall be used as a sleeping or dressing room by an employee or other persons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Mouthful | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...Palace in Tokyo, in a hall adorned with priceless golden screens and Japan's famed wall painting The Thousand Sparrows, the Imperial Council met. His Majesty bolt upright, his generals and admirals in full regalia, his civilian Cabinet in frock coats "Bismarck style," all sat before tables draped with costly old brocade. So much and no more was the authentic news of that fateful meeting that any foreign correspondent in Tokyo was able to obtain. The proceedings were veiled in almost religious secrecy. The event which immediately followed it could not however be concealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: True Intentions | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

When Japan was emerging from Feudalism during the second half of the nineteenth century, he said, a certain Ito and other official observers were sent to examine the Constitutions of the modern civilized nations. They were especially impressed by Bismarck and the Prussian form of government, and also adopted some ideas from England, but after being given some copies of "The Federalist" and the American constitution they politely called it the worst. Their present document contains 76 articles, 64 of which are taken from foreign models, 42 from Germany...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ancient Customs in New Form Make Japan Constitution, Says Hindmarsh | 5/19/1937 | See Source »

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