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...Manchus and in the Abdication Agreements, there was a complete recognition of the independent status of Manchuria. Furthermore, even if this analysis is not acceptable, Mr. Rea contends that the military despotism of the War Lords at Nanking furnished a satisfactory justification for a revolutionary separation from the fatherland. In short, Manchuria was exercising the rights of any downtrodden nation in seeking the aid of Japan to defeat the forces of Chiang-Kai-shek...
...will deny that the nose has had a significant role in deciding the fate of many unfortunate individuals in Germany today? Racial origins may be disputed, hands may be tied, but emigration statistics in the Fatherland show you can't fool Hitler on what a German's nose should be like. According to one news item, several of the tainted ones have tried to help matters by cultivating a mustache...
...even Adolf Hitler could not make his paper boom, German journalism was close to the rocks. Chiefly to blame, Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels, who censors and blights the Fatherland's news, last week berated German editors because "the published word no longer has its former effect. The reader has become a mule. . . . There has now reappeared the old 'vocal newspaper,' the passing of news from mouth to mouth. The reader is not responsible: the newspapers are responsible! They are losing ground because they satisfy only 40% of the readers' curiosity instead...
...minute particulars of Germany's urchin-in-the-jam-closet behavior, Dame France recalled to the League Council that, whereas German Air Minister Goring denied on Dec. 20, 1934 that his country possessed a military air force, three months later Realmleader Hitler told Sir John Simon that the Fatherland's military air force is equal to Great Britain...
When jottings such as these were found last June on Mr. Roiderer, then teaching English in Munich, the fact that he is a naturalized U. S. citizen did not prevent his being clapped into a Munich jail, charged with "high treason" to the Fatherland. Efforts by the U. S. Consul General to have access to Roiderer were met with frog-faced assertions that the German Ministry of Justice itself did not know where he was. Realmleader Hitler has set above the German Supreme Court his own death-dealing Volksgerricht, and occasionally someone's head gets chopped off before...