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Professional Duty. As everyone had foreseen, there were loud cries of pain from Germans of all political shades. In Diisseldorf, Britain's military governor General Sir Brian Robertson slapped them down: "Stop complaining. Be thankful for what you have got. The Germans must understand that Germany's record has caused other countries to be nervous about her behavior in the future." The sanest German opinion was well expressed by a Berlin businessman: "Of course the politicians must cry out in anger-that is part of their professional duty. But we need a year before we can really tell...
...Grand Fleet, ordered to sea in a move of desperation, mutinied; Socialist Kurt Eisner led a monster demonstration in Munich which culminated in the proclaiming, November 8, of the Bavarian Socialist Republic; the German Majority Socialists served the Kaiser with an ultimatum to abdicate; revolution spread to Frankfort, Cologne, Diisseldorf, Leipzig, Stuttgart, Madgeburg, Brunswick; the rulers of Brunswick, Bavaria, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, abdicated; the Kaiser fled; the German Republic was proclaimed; Croatian independence was proclaimed in Zagreb; a revolt in Budapest put liberal Count Karolyi in power...
...revealed in Germany that for many months 5,000 Nazi workers have been constructing at Diisseldorf on the Rhine a fair covering 192 acres, with 42 exhibition halls, 30 pavilions, 20 restaurants and cafes, an amusement park. Nazi censorship had kept the secret safe from the rest of the world...
Felix Mendelssohn was a composer who honored Germany with his music. But Felix Mendelssohn was also a Jew. Last week his statue was removed from the Municipal Theatre in Diisseldorf and Herr Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, as "spiritual adviser" of the German people, issued an order for other German composers to try to write music for Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream...
These odd charges involved the alleged acceptance of bribes by the renowned and ancient University of Graz in Austria. A onetime mayor of Diisseldorf was also accused of having wangled favors from the Prussian Ministry of Public Welfare by presenting 100 lottery tickets and 100 bottles of wine to Minister Hirtsiefer. In the Press these charges were reported as facts, played up as horrible examples of corruption to be expected from politicians of the German Republic now replaced by the honest officials of the Third Reich...