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...London, a catalogue of books "suitable for sending to troops" was compiled by the Incorporated Society of Authors and the National Book Council. Titles numbered 1,321. Included: Mein Kampf, Das Kapital, War and Peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: War Notes | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...which must amount to many millions of dollars, being left to the Commission. In Tallinn alone, 1,000 apartments and houses were already vacant and in Riga, where 40,000 Germans lived, the commercial district was almost deserted. German language newspapers folded. Among the famed journals of Riga was Das Baltikum, founded by Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, chief of the Nazi Party's foreign political office and long regarded as the spiritual font of Naziism. The Hitler-Stalin collaboration has ended Baltic-born Dr. Rosenberg's dream of German eastward expansion at the expense of Russia, and the doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Balts' Return | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...them jeered at the Russo-German rapprochement, refused to get excited about war. The Philadelphia Record's Jerry Doyle produced a sketch of a swastika-shaped Stalin clutching hammer and sickle, with the caption: "Forward Marx!" and the Manchester Guardian got some fun of its own out of Das Schwarze Korps' cartoon poking fun at the staff talks in Moscow (see cut). Prepared all summer for this European crisis, the press was not caught napping as it had been in 1914. For six weeks the U. P. had been filling in weak spots in Europe, acting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Big Story | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...Through Joy" trip accompanied by bevies of blooming beauties. Opening a "House for the Care of Beauty" in Berlin recently, Dr. Ley, whose wife is no dowdy, damned fashions because they waste materials, "which is not in the least in accordance with the present economic policy." Promptly cuing in, Das Schwarze Korps, official organ of the Storm Troopers, editorialized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Fashion Notes | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...Roundly Das Schwarze Korps rapped those who think the present return to corsets, bustles, "ribbons, lace and pleats" would fill the bill. Corsets are bad for women's health, especially if pregnant. As for hats: "How could a woman look well with an odd Australian stork perched on a beer mat on top of her head?" But the editors pulled their punches to meet feminine critics, explained earnestly: "All this is no fulmination against lipstick, powder and silk stockings; quite the contrary. . . . Every woman should be beautiful; every woman should have the opportunity to accentuate her natural charms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Fashion Notes | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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