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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bursting with excitement, Herr Doktor Oberbürgermeister ("Lord Mayor") Günter Riesen of Cologne buttoned himself into his sausage-tight Nazi Storm Troop uniform and took his stance, shortly after noon, facing the Square. To Rhinelanders in whose bones is bred Die Wacht am Rhein with its ringing, tingling question: "The Rhine, the Rhine, the German Rhine! Who guards tonight our Stream Divine?" This was the most blissful moment in 17 years. Adam's apples gulped as on three bicycles the very first real GERMAN SOLDIERS, trim lads in grim steel helmets, swerved into the Square...
Impatient Dr. Ambedkar summoned 10,000 raggle-taggle Untouchables to Nasik near Bombay last autumn, said de liberately: "I had the misfortune of being born with the stigma of Untouchability. But it is not my fault. I will not die a Hindu, for this is in my power. I say to you, abandon Hinduism and adopt any other religion which gives you equality of status and treatment...
...Viking Press and Houghton Mifflin Co. for "discrediting" his claim to the "discovery" of the North Pole in 1908. Generally considered the master impostor of his time, jailed in 1925-30 for using the mails to defraud in connection with oil-stock swindling, Dr. Cook declared: "Before I die I must clear my good name...
...Spanish general election last month sent him and 30,000 other rebels of 1934 rollicking out of Spain's jails. This week he became a liberator when he wangled from Spain's Republican Premier Manuel Azaña "local autonomy" for Catalonia. In Spain old issues never die, and States' Rights is the deathless battle cry of Catalonia & Companys...
...Die Tussle...