Word: fatherland
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...night Ernst distracts Adolf, weary from cares of state, by playing soulfully on the piano. Ernst, scion of Munich's famed art-print publishing House of Hanfstaengl, is a Harvard man, once kept a smart Manhattan art shop. Because Hitler and Hanfstaengl are inseparable, constantly flying about the Fatherland together in the Chancellor's private plane, all Germany was flabbergasted last autumn when the Party's first super-film, Horst Wessel "with music by Dr. Ernst Hanfstaengl" was abruptly withdrawn on the day of its scheduled premiere. Nazi critics present at previews had hailed...
This week the Cuban "mess"' boiled up as Mr. Caffery neared Havana. Mobsters friendly to the government sacked, looted and burned the opposition newsorgan El Pats ("The Fatherland' ). Dr. Grau defiantly announced that he will remain Provisional President until May 20, 1934, will then hand his resignation to a Cuban Constituent Assembly elected under his rule. At this declaration bombs burst in air all over Havana. The rattle of rifle fire was heard through the night. But the morrow brought Mr. Caffery's steamer and sufficient calm for several hundred Cubans and U. S. citizens to stage...
...over the Fatherland solemn little groups of school children paced the streets importantly one day last week, chanting at grown ups "Ja, ja ja! Vote Ja! Ja, ja, ja! Vote...
...final trump Chancellor Hitler played a gruff, five minute radio speech to the Fatherland by President von Hindenburg. "It is a lie, it is a vilification," rumbled der Feldmarschall, "if the outside world imputes warlike intentions to us [but] true peace can be achieved only on the basis of equality. Let your votes be a profession with me and with the Chancellor for the principle of equality and for peace with honor...
...Born and educated in Vienna, he was professor of theoretical physics at Stuttgart and Zurich before joining the faculty of the University of Berlin in 1927. This year he is at Oxford, may stay there permanently because, according to friends, he dislikes the way things are going in the Fatherland. When he is not working he likes to ski, skate, swim, climb mountains...