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...Easter Sunday the President, his wife and Son James went in the rain to the incompleted Washington Cathedral to worship. Next day President Roosevelt appeared briefly on the South Portico to watch the annual public White House egg rolling. He smiled, remarked: "There seem to be as many adults as there are children...
...plumped for Denmark. To Denmark's rage & grief the central zone voted to stay German. Since then, both Slesvig Danes and Schleswig Prussians have looked covetously across the new border. Lately a new glitter has come into Prussian Nazi eyes. Last week Danes heard that Nazis planned an Easter visit to Danish Slesvig in full Nazi uniform...
...only a German in a uniform. They then acted fast. They called an extraordinary session and passed a law providing for 100 extra police in Slesvig. They also passed a law forbidding the wearing of all political party uniforms and emblems. An airplane scudded to King Christian's Easter residence at Skaw in Jutland, scudded back with his signatures on the new laws. On Easter Day Slesvig Danes saw a lot of strangers, no uniforms...
Before the games on Easter Sunday the Ministry of the Interior announced it would supervise futbol for the rest of the season. Heavy police guards searched 200,000 fans for guns, knives, rocks, bottles and vegetables. By a new law any home club that incites riots among the fans will have its stadium closed indefinitely...
...Oldest Easter dawn services in the U. S. are those held in Moravian towns in Pennsylvania, and in Salem, the somnolent, pre-Camel part of Winston-Salem, N. C. Here, beginning at 2 a. m. on Easter morning, bands tour the dark streets playing old Moravian chorales. Toward dawn there is a service at the doorway of old Home Church, then a procession down to the Moravian burying ground, in which the tombstones are all the same size and laid horizontally. Thousands of visitors attend, to hear the Bishop intone "The Lord is risen." The visitors reply, "The Lord...