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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recently as 1932, was slain in the Fiihrer's "purge" of dissident Nazis two years later. German secret police charges that Otto Strasser instigated the recent Munich Nazi Beer Hall bombing (TIME, Nov.. 20) caused the Swiss Government to expel him last week. "I thought at first that my friends had been implicated . . . when I heard the false reports that Hess [Deputy Nazi Party -With Nazi Protector Baron Xeurath Leader Rudolf Hess] had been killed," said Herr Strasser on arrival in P'aris. The fact that no Nazi bigwig was killed in the explosion convinced...
...anti-Hitler revolution but it will take time. Higher officers of the Army are too subservient to Hitler to take part. But the Nazis have many enemies among the colonels, majors and subordinate officers. For a revolt to be successful in the Reich, three things will be needed. First, Germans who still believe in Hitler must feel the horrors of war; second, the Reich must suffer its first military reverses, and, finally, privations in the country must become more acute. All these things can happen by the spring of 1940. Hitlerism will perish through internal revolt...
...first arrivals was last week reported by the Berlin correspondent of the Copenhagen Politiken. The unhappy Jews were virtual slaves. The area around the city was entirely hedged in by barbed wire and bayonets. Gradually the Jews were herded from the station, given quarters of sorts, put immediately to work (twelve hours a day) on roads, fields, bogs, buildings...
...compromise which two fishermen could reach in an hour's talk. But for as much as six months, representatives of the two countries bow deeply, sip tea, shake heads, pound tables, grin, frown, embrace, clench fists-throughout standing thunderously firm on impossible demands. Then, the day the first silvery smolts begin to run in the bitter waters off Sakhalin Island, the diplomats find themselves in sudden agreement, and sign...
Shown for the first time to the student body, Design for Education chronicles the Sarah Lawrence educational method typified in the four-year career of a candidate for an A.B. degree. "Joan," the heroine, is Marjory Erdman, a sophomore from Honolulu, who was allowed to count her cinemacting as school work. From the time she comes wide-eyed up the winding drive to the luxurious hilltop estate of the late founder William Van Duzer Lawrence in Bronxville, N. Y., until she self-consciously reads her senior "contract" (thesis) to critical classmates, Joan untiringly shows off Sarah Lawrence's progressivism...