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...Back from the borders, the Third Reich was an armed camp. Conscripts due for discharge this week were indefinitely retained in the army. With the calling of the new class, 1,500,000 men were in feldgrau from the North Sea to the Danube. All men under 65 were forbidden to leave Germany. All former officers and technicians of the air force were called to the colors. Doctors were required to register their vacation addresses with the police. Hundreds of private motor vehicles were rented or requisitioned and all German farm horses which had completed their harvest work were conscripted...
...will learn those are useful. But it surprises me that you have no fear. It is fundamental to living. You see, we scholars cannot exist wholly in the past any more. They have forbidden it. We must be alert to what is changing around us, even though we cannot understand. They have warned us that the world has come to a sharp turn, and they say even students must be ready for the careening. It's a hard blow, because we have spent so many delightful years in our towers. It's somewhat of a joke that...
...there is only the graveyard as a horizon-all this is contrary to human dignity and can result only in the catastrophic disturbance of relations between nations!" Such language was not calculated to soothe Adolf Hitler, whose help would be most useful in getting Jews out of Germany. Already forbidden to take money with them, German Jews were recently forbidden by new Nazi decrees to take even their household goods and movable possessions. They were ordered to pay on such goods as jewelry, furs and furniture, an export tax of 100%. A further decree barred German dealers from bidding...
...examples cited by Attorney Arnold of the A. M. A.'s restraint of trade: A G. H. A. doctor who referred a heart case to a specialist was forbidden to consult personally with the specialist and was forced to communicate with him through the mails. A G. H. A. doctor called to an acute appendicitis case at midnight found all the hospitals in Washington barred to him, was forced to relinquish the operation to another surgeon...
Ponce is the place where 21 persons were killed, over 100 injured on Palm Sunday 1937, when the anti-U. S. Nationalists (a terrorist minority) started shooting at police who had forbidden a parade. Last week, crashing over the heads of paraders and onlookers, a burst of gunfire suddenly ripped into the reviewing stand. A Puerto Rican Senator and 30 others dropped. A National Guard officer fell, fatally wounded. The shooters were Nationalist agitators who had denounced the celebration as a "shameless disgrace" to Puerto Rico. When police had restored order, killing one Nationalist, Governor Winship, unhurt, congratulated the excited...