Word: civilian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Water, Wine & Order! Candles were winking in the old Neudeck manor house. When bristling Chancellor Hitler arrived in civilian clothes and sat down to dinner with President von Hindenburg, also in mufti and limping about on his cane. In a sense Neudeck is Nazidom's gift to the House of Hindenburg. Wealthy Junker admirers of Old Paul bought the estate and gave it in 1927 to Col. Oscar von Hindenburg, so that when the President died there would be no annoying inheritance tax. Later gifts of adjoining estates brought Old Paul's acres...
...Storm Troops are proudly carrying on without uniforms and remain loyal to the Führer," hopefully declared the Chancellor's personal newsorgan. "Even in civilian clothes our splendid Storm Troopers can easily be recognized!" With time to mull over the announcement that Herr Lutze was planning to slash their numbers from about 2,500,000 to an unarmed "political army" of some 800,000, they had the small satisfaction last week of hearing that their rivals of the Stahlhelm were being taken out of their uniforms too and sent off on a vacation until August...
Normally the leader of the Seiyukai Party, which has a huge majority in Japan's Parliament, should have been asked to form a cabinet last week, but Japanese politics have been decidedly abnormal ever since naval petty officers assassinated her last civilian premier, the Hon. Ki ("Old Fox") Inukai two years ago (TIME, May 23, 1932). This crime and other "purifying assassinations," all supposedly performed by patriots, are considered to have put corrupt politicians "on probation"?with no prospect of getting the Government out of the hands of the military for the present. Thus last week Premier Saionji...
...official Nazi version General von Schleicher resisted arrest by the Secret Police ''with a weapon in his hand," Frau von Schleicher flung herself before her husband to protect him and the Secret Police shot them both "in self defense." Later an eyewitness reported that six men in civilian garb had driven into the von Schleicher driveway, summoned the General and his wife, riddled them with bullets in gangster style, sped away without a word...
...application, governing the development, organization, maintenance, training and operation of a navy. It is based on and is designed to support national policies and national interests." The admirals do not make those national policies and national interests or the wars each may beget. That is the political job of civilian statesmen. The admirals pull the trigger after the gun has been aimed for them...