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...have accomplished what no other French ministers have ever done ... a firm agreement between Great Britain and France to stand together and fight together if and when they must fight." Flashed from London International News Service's Kingsbury Smith: "A new western frontier beyond which Germany will be forbidden to trespass was created today by France and Great Britain, simultaneously with adoption of a program to check Nazi expansion in Europe...
...mayor once stopped the sale of Dreiser's American Tragedy, or as the mayor of Omaha, Neb. more recently clamped down on Mari Sandoz' Slogum House. In England books that come under official displeasure are usually withdrawn by the publishers; in European dictatorships their circulation is forbidden by the state. Recent book bans...
...Deal's harshest reform, the Public Utility Act ordered all utility holding companies to register with SEC under the penalty of being forbidden use of mails or other facilities of interstate commerce. SEC would then have power to control their financial transactions and, under the famed "death sentence" clause, to force simplification of any utility pyramid into a single geographically integrated system with only one intermediary company allowed between the top holding company and actual operating subsidiaries. When most of the utility business refused to register, SEC agreed to hold the Act in abeyance while it brought a test...
...them the cat-o'-nine-tails. In the Jewish quarter of Vienna boys were flogged, the eyes of old men watered as their beards were jerked. Nazis spat in the faces of Jewesses, and almost everyone whether Jew or Aryan was soon wearing a swastika. Later Jews were forbidden to wear them. The arrest by Nazi pagans of Theodor Cardinal Innitzer was incessantly rumored, but his Palace ran up the Nazi flag, and His Eminence exclaimed: "Thank God there has been no bloodshed...
German papers had at first been forbidden to report the farmers' activities in Berlin or even their arrival. The State's act of clemency and the story of the farmers were then released together last week, timed to blanket in the German press the ending of the Niemoller trial (TIME, Feb. 21). Heroic Rev. Martin Niemöller, a Wartime U-boat commander who helped sink record Allied tonnage, was arraigned four weeks ago on charges which included sedition. During the trial, from which press and public were excluded, the State's case apparently so far collapsed...