Word: deutschlandlied
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...press summary handed newshawks listed 100 separate documents. The book contained 101, the hastily suppressed 101st carrying an overlooked reference to German participation. All this deeply planned strategy was knocked higher than a kite at week's end by the bombs that fell on the Nazi battleship Deutschland, the shells that blasted Almeria (see p. 22). Upon receipt of the news, Alvarez del Vayo presented to the Council his country's formal protest. As usual when faced by direct action, the delegates, rushed to their telephones to get in touch with their home capitals...
...hundred feet in the air the quick clap of a snapping guy-rope sounds no worse to the ear of a tight-rope walker than do the echoes of the Deutschland bombing sound to the Non-Intervention Committee in London. Only to be expected after such an attack is the news of the bombardment of Almeria and of the mobilization of the German fleet and of the British squadron at Gilbraltar. The Italian and German withdrawal from the Spanish Non-Intervention Committee is a far more serious event, however, stopping dead the peace negotiations which in the past fortnight were...
...past sequence of events holds true, the renewed ferocity with which Italy and Germany are plunging into the war will be countered by additional help to Madrid from Russia, and the twenty killed on the Deutschland and the hundred killed in Almeria are just an "aperitif" before a long meal. That Germany and Italy will go out of their way to fight in Spain is the lesson of the latest crisis, and the moral therefrom is that positive pressure of an economic or political nature must be applied to these countries before they wholly upset the tight-rope team...
...Deputies of the Reichstag. Each is paid $240 monthly; in the last two years the Reichstag has been in session a total of four days, its "work" consisting of passing unanimous votes of Nazi approval, cheering Nazi bigwigs to the echo, singing Deutschland Uber Alles and the Horst Wessel Lied in the Kroll Opera House, where it has met since the Reichstag Building was burned (TIME, March...
...night before the wedding Dutch prudence caused both Deutschland Über Alles and the Horst Wessel song to be played at a gala theatrical evening for the royal couple, while Dutch indignation sent speeding to Berlin an extremely stiff note in which Her Majesty's Government demanded that the German Government make its press mind its manners. Scheduled to appear at the gala were some broad Dutch comedians famed for an act in which the chief funster appears as Kaiser Wilhelm II, then strips off gold lace, upturned mustaches and so forth until he finally ends in a plain...