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Victors & Vanquished. Next day the accused passed before the judges, entering their fervent pleas of "not guilty." It was clear that the men whose brass-knuckle philosophy had brushed aside not only legalisms but law itself would seek refuge in legalistic arguments. The defense presented a motion "in re Göring et al," questioning the legal basis of the trial, which was promptly dismissed by the bench. The main defense points...
Among the opportunists, perverts, gangsters and men of distorted genius who rose to power in Hitler's Germany, Dr. Robert Ley was an exception. The boss of Germany's Labor Front was a rather ordinary little man, fond of his bottle and frantically fervent in his adulation of Hitler and Naziism. "National Socialism has made an end to the bone-softening doctrine of life negation," he once said. "Germans are fanatics of life." When he was arrested last May, he moaned: "Life [without Hitler] does not mean a damn thing...
...first contemporary study of the poet who became the most influential editor of his day, believes that Henley can best be understood through the psychological theories of the late Alfred ("Inferiority Complex") Adler (TIME, Sept. 10). Years of suffering and physical inferiority, argues Author Buckley, aroused in Henley a fervent, bigoted passion for the vigorous, "masculine" things of life and art, and a corresponding contempt for all that was "effeminate" and decadent. The theme of Author Buckley's study is the effect of this "activist" philosophy upon English literature in the last 20 years of the 19th Century...
...Winifred Homeward the Talking Woman" in Gideon Planish. "She was an automatic, self-starting talker. Any throng of more than two persons constituted a lecture audience for her, and at sight of them she mounted an imaginary platform, pushed aside an imaginary glass of ice water, and started a fervent address full of imaginary information about Conditions and Situations that lasted till the audience had sneaked out-or a little longer." Says Dorothy: "No one can live with Sinclair Lewis for ten years without being educated...
Minister of Education Torres Bodet, hoping to avoid a second controversy, gave Biddle just one fervent instruction: "For God's sake, do something constructive!" Glowed Biddle: "This is the most beautiful wall space I ever hope to have...