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Within the past six months in France a great equestrian statue of Marshal Foch was unveiled at Cassel, a monumental figure of Marshal Joffre at Chantilly. On both occasions, art critics and a large section of the French press howled in derision, said that the monuments were blots on the landscape. The French Ministry of Beaux Arts suddenly sided with the critics last week, announced that no contract would be awarded, all designs and models would be returned, in the contest for a monument to perpetuate the memory of the Battle of the Marne. Reason: there is no living sculptor...
There was one moment at the conference when the Archbishop's face became wistful. That was when Dr. Erich Stange of Cassel-Wilhelmshohe, Germany, suggested what he called "an audacious thought," namely, to have a central seat of learning for the Lutherans of the world...
...about rocketing. The perfecters of the idea were two German inventors named Valier and Sander. They had rocketed a racing car (without a driver) as high as 430 m. p. h., he said. They thought, of course, that they could revolutionize aerial locomotion. In the Raab-Katzenstein works at Cassel, they were completing a rocket-drive airplane, the Grasimiecke ("Garden Warbler"). Only a moderate 125 m. p. h. would be attempted with this craft. Later airplanes would be built to rocket beyond the highest flights of motored airplanes, first with laboratory animals aboard-and plane-parachutes later with...
From 16 nations there converged upon Cassel, Germany, last week, furtive delegates to an ominous convention. Most entered Germany on forged passports. All were agents of the Third International: the Communist bureau at Moscow devoted to fomenting "The World Revolution of The World Proletariat" (TIME, Jan. 30). As the delegates filtered into Cassel, several were recognized by the German secret police. Shrewd, the police officials allowed the convention of professional seditionists to proceed in apparent deadly secrecy but contrived to overhear all that passed by means of dictaphones...
...always fall into the hands of the police," and were told to keep their records and reports to Moscow "as concise as possible." Though authority for the above accounts rests solely upon a statement issued, last week, by the German secret police, their version of the seditious proceedings at Cassel smacks strongly of the typical, half naive and half ruthless methods of the Third International...